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Preface; 1. Isaac Newton's theory of a flattened Earth; 2. The state of the problem of the Earth's shape in the 1720s: stalemate; 3. The revival of geodesy in Paris (1733–1735); 4. Maupertuis: on the theory of the Earth's shape (1734); 6.
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