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The Genesis of Coordinate Reference Systems
11. May 2007
Figure and shape of the Earth
Co-ordinates
Earthmodels of the Greeks
stereometric Earthmodels
size of the Earth by
Erathostenes
rotational Earthmodels
equilibrium figures
ellipsoid of revolution
gravitational earth models
geoid
topographic Earthmodels
terrain models
surface models
3D topographic landscape models
other Earthmodels
telluroid
quasigeoid
geographic coordinates (longitude, latitude) by
hipparchus
, 2nd century BC
infinitesimal calculus by
Sir Isaac Newton
cartesian coordinates by
Pierre de Fermat
and
René Descartes
, 17th century
differential geometry by
Carl- Friedrich Gauss
Riemannian geometry by
Bernhard Riemann
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