[PDF.11jk] Geodesy? What's That?: My Personal Involvement in the Age-Old Quest for the Size and Shape of the Earth

Geodesy? What's That?: My Personal Involvement in the Age-Old Quest for the Size and Shape of the Earth

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 | #2443971 in Books |  iUniverse, Inc. |  2005-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 397 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| From stay-at-home Mom to world renowned scientist.|By Foster Morrison|Irene Fischer was looking for a job, since her kids were soon to be heading to college, and she followed her husband's suggestion to apply to the Army Map Service where he worked. She had a strong background in mathematics, and as it later was shown, a superb grasp of the scientific method and what was neede

Geodesy (the measurement of the size and shape of the earth), fascinating since the time of Erathosenes, became a basic science for the space program. Irene Fischer was a leader in the construction of the World Geodetic System (has an Earth reference ellipsoid named in her honor) when it was still being done by surveyors, piecing together terrestrial, gravitational and astronomical data. By the 1970s, satellite geodesy and marine geodesy were just coming into their own. ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Geodesy? What's That?: My Personal Involvement in the Age-Old Quest for the Size and Shape of the Earth   |  Irene Fischer. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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