And to-day, a century and a half after the victory of the Newtonians, think you geodesy has nothing more to teach us?
Ever since, the activity of French geodesy has never slackened.
Should this question be put to a congressman, I suppose he would say: "I am led to believe that geodesyis one of the most useful of the sciences; because it is one of those costing us most dear.
Geodesy can therefore weigh them from afar, so to speak, and tell us of their distribution.
So we shall put the question otherwise; cangeodesy aid us the better to know nature?
The future of French geodesy is at present in the hands of the Geographic Service of the army, successively directed by General Bassot and General Berthaut.
Defn: That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.
Geodesy & Signal Service) Defn: An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.
The geodetic line has always held a more important place in the science of geodesy among the mathematicians of France, Germany and Russia than has been assigned to it in the operations of the English and Indian triangulations.
The science ofgeodesy is part of mathematical geography, of which the arts of surveying and cartography are applications.
The theodolites used in geodesyvary in pattern and in size--the horizontal circles ranging from 10 in.
Heiskanen and Vening Meinesz summarize the present-day achievements of the gravimetric method of physical geodesy by stating[113] that it alone can give: 1.
It is based on data from the Institute of Geodesy at Ohio State University.
The gravity field of the earth also provides data for a determination of the figure of the earth, or geoid, but for this problem of geodesy relative values of gravity are sufficient.
An epoch-making work during the ellipsoidal era of geodesy was Clairaut's treatise, Theorie de la figure de la terre.
In spherical trigonometry, all that will be needed in geodesy should be learned before admission to the school, so that the subject will not need to be again taken up.
A Major or Captain, Professor of Geodesy and Topography.
Professor of the Course of Topography andGeodesy (a Captain of Engineers.
Josef Wastler, docent in geodesyat the Technical Institute in Graz; Dr.
Geodesy can only furnish it for short distances; in such cases, it is true, it supplies it with a degree of accuracy which meridianal observations cannot attain.
What is French is the particular metre of our national archives, which exhibits a very slight difference from that which our actual geodesy would have given us.
