Geodesy The Figure Of The Earth And Isostasy From Measurements In The United States PDF Download

Excerpt from Geodesy: The Figure of the Earth and Isostasy From Measurements in the United States Sir: I have the honor to submit for your approval for publication the accompanying report by the Chief of the Computing Division of this Service, entitled The Figure of the Earth and Isostasy from Measurements in the United States. It gives the necessary details as to principles and method of an investigation of which the results have been for some time before the world. All the geodetic work in this country prior to the year 1906 which was sufficiently far advanced to lend itself to the purposes of this discussion has been utilized. The effect of the accumulation of further data on the values obtained by this investigation will be shown in a subsequent publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.