Anmärkning om Nyttan at weta Jordens rätta Storlek och Figur [Note on the usefulness of knowing the correct size and shape of the Earth]

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Article on geodesy extracted from: Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar, vol. IV, pp. 259--263. Bound in stiff protective wrappers, pages uncut and unopened. Title-page creased and slightly foxed, dampstain to bottom margin of final leaf. In 1736 Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701--1744) accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis on an expedition to Lapland organized by the French Academy of Sciences in order to measure the length of a degree along the meridian. This measurement, together with the equivalent measurement at the equator, gave the first confirmation of Newton's prediction that the Earth is flattened at the poles. Celsius is best known for the Celsius temperature scale, named after him, first proposed in a paper to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1742. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-040

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