| 书目名称 | The Hunt for Earth Gravity | | 副标题 | A History of Gravity | | 编辑 | John Milsom | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Includes spectacular images of the world, and particularly of the world‘s oceans, viewed through the medium of its gravity field.Includes personal accounts that are intended to provide readers with in | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .The author of this history of mankind’s increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth’s gravity field (commonly known as ‘.little g’ .or just ‘.g’.) has been following in the footsteps of the pioneers, intermittently and with a variety of objectives, for more than fifty years. It is a story that begins with Galileo’s early experiments with pendulums and falling bodies, progresses through the conflicts between Hooke and Newton and culminates in the measurements that are now being made from aircraft and satellites. The spectacular increases in accuracy that have been achieved during this period provide the context, but the main focus is on the people, many of whom were notable eccentrics. Also covered are the reasons WHY these people thought their measurements would be useful, with emphasis in the later chapters on the place of .‘g’. in today’s applied geology, and on the ways in which it is providing new and spectacular visions of our planet. It is also, in part, a personal memoir that explores the parallels between the way fieldwork is being done now and the difficulties that accompanied its execution in the past. Selected topics in the mathemati | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Earth‘s Gravity; Galileo Galilei; Exploration of the World‘s Ocean; Science history; Gravity field; Gravi | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74959-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-09113-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-74959-4 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 |
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