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Geographical Directory
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Gola
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Aryabhatiya
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Aryabhata
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Geography in medieval Islam
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Persian
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Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni
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MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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geography
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celestial sphere
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cities
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Indian subcontinent
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Christopher Columbus
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Mercator
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Mediterranean Sea
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Scientific revolution
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telescope
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theodolite
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logarithm tables
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triangulation
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grade measurement
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Jean Picard
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base line
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Jacques Cassini
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Dunkirk
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Paris
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oblong
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ellipsoid
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Isaac Newton
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Christiaan Huygens
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theory of gravitation
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oblate
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vertical direction
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French Academy of Sciences
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis
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Lapland
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second mission
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Pierre Bouguer
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Ecuador
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ellipsoid of revolution
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South America
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George Everest
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Great Trigonometric Survey
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gravitational
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geoid
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lithography
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Bavaria
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Munich
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Munich
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Austria-Hungary
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Germany
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ellipsoid
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gravity
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Europe
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International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
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F.R. Helmert
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US
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Hayford
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isostasy
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Figure of the Earth
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MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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2008
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01-22
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Emporia State University
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Routledge
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ISBN 041501929X
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ISBN 1404205128
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Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science
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Routledge
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ISBN 1404205128
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ISBN 0-521-38541-5
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ISBN 0-7546-5020-0
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