著者

SHEYNIN Oscar

出版者

日本科学史学会

雑誌

Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan (ISSN:02854821)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, no.2, pp.168-175, 2001-11-25

参考文献数

36

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I am dwelling on Bessel's indirect conflict with Gauss over the adjustment of triangulation, a subject overlooked by Biermann and other commentators, e.g., May. I begin by touching on Biermann's paper who discussed the relations between the two scholars and provide my own relevant material in §§3 and 4. I also have to explain the two main patterns of adjusting geodetic measurements (§2), and to formulate some conclusions and offer additional related considerations (§5). Finally, §6 is devoted to several new unexpected dramatis personae.