The Hunt for Earth Gravity : A History of Gravity Measurement from Galileo to the 21st Century /: A History of Gravity Measurement from Galileo to the 21st Century. (2018)
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- Book
- Title:
- The Hunt for Earth Gravity : A History of Gravity Measurement from Galileo to the 21st Century /: A History of Gravity Measurement from Galileo to the 21st Century. (2018)
- Main Title:
- The Hunt for Earth Gravity : A History of Gravity Measurement from Galileo to the 21st Century
- Further Information:
- Note: John Milsom.
- Authors:
- Milsom, John
- Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Introduction; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The Beginning; The Biographers; The Legends; Galileo and Aristotle; A Route Map; The Pendulum; The Making of a Scientist; The Inclined Plane; Experiments About Experiments; The Complexities of Roll; Fall and Swing; Tides and the Church; 'Little g'; References; 2 The Making of a Map; 1966 Bowutu Mountains; 1966 Jet Boat Survey; TPNG; The BMR; 1966-1968 Eastern Papua Helicopter Surveys; 1968: A Gravity Map for Eastern Papua; References; 3 The Astronomers; Copernicus; An Astronomical Revolution; The Instruments; Tycho Brahe The Conjunction of the BearKepler Alone; References; 4 The Synthesis; The Royal Society; The First Skirmishes; The Path to the Principia; The Principia War; The Man About Town; The Missing Portrait; A Question of Priority; 'Big G', 'Little g'; References; 5 The Figure of the Earth; The Pendulum Clock; The Shape of the Earth; An Expedition to Peru; The Blow Falls; Measuring Gravity; The Effect of Height; The Density of the Andes; Aftermaths; 1971: Etna; 1988: Grimsvötn; References; 6 The Attraction of Mountains; The Deflection of the Vertical; The Society Intervenes; Maskelyne on Schiehallion Hutton in London1970 The Woodlark Basin; The Himalaya; The Proofs; The Re-emergence of Finland; References; 7 The Pitfalls of Pendulums; Releasing the Pendulum; Kater; The House of Mr. Browne; Shetland to Wight; Love Among the Pendulums; Sabine in the Arctic; 1960s Australia in the Antarctic; The Intrusion ofIntro; Contents; Introduction; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The Beginning; The Biographers; The Legends; Galileo and Aristotle; A Route Map; The Pendulum; The Making of a Scientist; The Inclined Plane; Experiments About Experiments; The Complexities of Roll; Fall and Swing; Tides and the Church; 'Little g'; References; 2 The Making of a Map; 1966 Bowutu Mountains; 1966 Jet Boat Survey; TPNG; The BMR; 1966-1968 Eastern Papua Helicopter Surveys; 1968: A Gravity Map for Eastern Papua; References; 3 The Astronomers; Copernicus; An Astronomical Revolution; The Instruments; Tycho Brahe The Conjunction of the BearKepler Alone; References; 4 The Synthesis; The Royal Society; The First Skirmishes; The Path to the Principia; The Principia War; The Man About Town; The Missing Portrait; A Question of Priority; 'Big G', 'Little g'; References; 5 The Figure of the Earth; The Pendulum Clock; The Shape of the Earth; An Expedition to Peru; The Blow Falls; Measuring Gravity; The Effect of Height; The Density of the Andes; Aftermaths; 1971: Etna; 1988: Grimsvötn; References; 6 The Attraction of Mountains; The Deflection of the Vertical; The Society Intervenes; Maskelyne on Schiehallion Hutton in London1970 The Woodlark Basin; The Himalaya; The Proofs; The Re-emergence of Finland; References; 7 The Pitfalls of Pendulums; Releasing the Pendulum; Kater; The House of Mr. Browne; Shetland to Wight; Love Among the Pendulums; Sabine in the Arctic; 1960s Australia in the Antarctic; The Intrusion of Geology; Linking the Bases; Sabine's Errors; The Pendulum Re-designed; Disaster in Potsdam; The Pendulum Abandoned; References; 8 Change of a Change; The Cavendish Experiment; Baron Eötvös; Torsion Balance Surveys; Salt; References; 9 The Rise and Fall of Springs; An Impossible Ambition Spring-Balance BasicsThe Earth Tides; 1985: Southern Europe; The First Gravity Meters; The Zero-Length Spring; 2007: Of Patents and Promoters; Meters Made of Glass; Practical Gravity; 1975: An Earthquake Detector; 1976: A Phantom Survey; Gravity on the Moon; The Making of a Monopoly; The End of an Era?; References; 10 The Challenges of Motion; The Search for Alternatives; The Eötvös Effect; The Submarine Pendulum; Plate Tectonics; 1983 to 2001: Indonesia; Meters at Sea; Meters in the Air; References; 11 The Return of the Gradient; Red October; A History; A 'Black Box?'; The End Product Airborne SurveysReferences; 12 A Map of the World; The Reasons Why; The Figure of the Earth; 1967: The Papua New Guinea Isogal Survey; 1973: The Australian Calibration Line; A Global Data Base; Gravity from Satellites; The Geoid; A Different 'Satellite Gravity'; Bathymetry from Gravity; Maps of the World; The Nature of the Map; References; 13 Epilogue; Gravity and Geology; Orogeny; Collapse; Oroclines; The Banda Sea; Seram; Kaibobo; References; 14 The Codas; Coda 1-The Vector 'g'; Vectors; Potential Fields; Tensors; Coda 2-The Graphs of Galileo Galilei; Roll and Fall; The Asinelli Tower … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 526.7
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319749594
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- 9783319749587
3319749587 - Notes:
- Note: Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 27, 2018).
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