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Weighing the World - The Quest to Measure the Earth (Paperback)
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Weighing the World - The Quest to Measure the Earth (Paperback)
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At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in
the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth
or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the
Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of
Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as
Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World,
master-surveyor and bestselling author Edwin Danson presents the
stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through
jungles, crossed the artic tundra, and braved the world's highest
mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. Danson also
recounts the extraordinary experiment, conducted on a desolate
Scottish peak by Astromer Royal Neville Maskelyne, to understand
the so-called "attraction of mountains," the curious capability
mountians have to bend gravity, without which it would be
impossible to accurately map Earth's surface. A spell-binding
scientific adventure story, Weighing the World will intrigue anyone
curious about the shape of our planet and how we have come to know
it.
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