History of Astronomy : Topics

History of Astronomy: Topics: Geodetic Astronomy

• Laplace, Oriani, and the "Italian meridian degree", by G. Tagliaferri and P. Tucci
  From Proceedings della 1st Europhysics Conference History of Physics in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, Villa Olmo, Como September 2-3, 1992. pp. 93-100.
• P. S. de Laplace e il grado di meridiano d'Italia, by G. Tagliaferri and P. Tucci (in Italian)
  Giornale di Fisica, 1993, XXXIV(4) : 257-277

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