Trait‚ du nivellement, easel

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Author
Picard, M (Jean), 1620-1682
Date
1728
Description
Page image from bound volume which has the following bibliographic description: 7 preliminary leaves, 212, 12 unnumbered pages, 3 leaves of plates : illustrations, diagrams ; 17 cm
Citation
Picard, M (Jean), 1620-1682. "Trait‚ du nivellement, easel." (1728) Rice University: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/78818.
Abstract
Picard was an ordained Jesuit priest, professor of astronomy at the College de France and a member of the Academie Royale de Sciences. He was the first to accurately compute the size of the Earth.
Keyword
Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Publisher
Rice University
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http://hdl.handle.net/1911/78818
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