A Treatise on the Theory of Couples, to which is added, a simple Method of investigating the Ellipticity of the Earth considered as a Heterogeneous Spheroid.
A Treatise on the Theory of Couples, to which is added, a simple Method of investigating the Ellipticity of the Earth considered as a Heterogeneous Spheroid.
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- Author
- Pritchard (Charles)
- Publishers
- Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, Printer to the University, 1831.
- Keyword
- ASTRONOMY PHYSICS
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First edition, 8vo, v, [1], 42pp., a few Ms. notes in the text, folding plate, disbound pamphlet. Charles Pritchard ìcommunicated to the Cambridge Philosophical Society a paper on the ëFigure of the Earth,í and he published in 1831 a ëTreatise on the Theory of Couples,í which was adopted in the teaching of the university, and reached a second edition in 1837.î - DNB.