A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth
From the Time of Newton to that of Laplace
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
1. Newton
2. Huygens
3. Miscellaneous investigations up to the year 1720
4. Maupertuis
5. Stirling
6. Clairaut
7. Arc of the meridian measured in Lapland
8. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1721 and 1740
9. Maclaurin
10. Thomas Simpson
11. Clairaut
12. Arc of the meridian measured in Peru
13. D'Alembert
14. Boscovich and Stay
15. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1741 and 1760
16. D'Alembert
17. Frisi
18. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1761 and 1780. Volume 2:
19. Laplace's first three memoirs
20. Legendre's first memoir
21. Laplace's treatise
22. Legendre's second memoir
23. Laplace's fourth, fifth, and sixth memoirs
24. Legendre's third memoir
25. Legendre's fourth memoir
26. Laplace's seventh memoir
27. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1781 and 1800
28. Laplace, Mécanique céleste, first and second volumes
29. Laplace's theorem
30. Laplace's equation
31. Partial differential equation for V
32. Laplace's second method of treating Legendre's problem
33. Laplace's memoirs
34. Fifth volume of the Mécanique céleste
35. Poisson
36. Ivory
37. Plana
38. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1801 and 1825
Index.