Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Hunt for Earth Gravity

Name: The Hunt for Earth Gravity
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ISBN: 9783319749587

By John Milsom

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About the book

The author of this history of mankind's increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth's gravity field (commonly known as `little g' or just `g') has been following in the footsteps of the pioneers, intermittently and with a variety of objectives, for more than fifty years. It is a story that begins with Galileo's early experiments with pendulums and falling bodies, progresses through the conflicts between Hooke and Newton and culminates in the measurements that ...Show more

History of science

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9783319749587

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Springer International Publishing AG

Published year

2018

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Original title

The Hunt for Earth Gravity

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Hardcover

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