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538 pages • missing pub info (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781108062077
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition Pub Date: 06 February 2014
Description
As early as the seventeenth century, scientists realised that a pendulum swings more slowly at the equator than it would at the North Pole. Newton predicted that gravity increased with latitude, and that the Earth could not be perfectly spherical....
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538 pages • missing pub info (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781108062077
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition Pub Date: 06 February 2014
Description
As early as the seventeenth century, scientists realised that a pendulum swings more slowly at the equator than it would at the North Pole. Newton predicted that gravity increased with latitude, and that the Earth could not be perfectly spherical....