Publisher's Synopsis
Jo. Casp. Eisenschmidii Diatribe De Figura Telluris Elliptico-Sphaeroide (1691) est liber qui tractat de figura telluris elliptico-sphaeroide, et auctore eiusdem nomine, Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt, scriptus est. In hoc libro, Eisenschmidt disserit de forma terrae, quae non est perfecte sphaerica, sed est elliptica. Ille explicat causas et rationes propter quas terra est talis figurae, et describit effectus eius in geographia et astronomia. Eisenschmidt etiam comparat formam terrae cum formis aliis planetarum et stellarum, et ostendit quomodo figura terrae influit in motus orbium caelestium. Opus hoc est valde utilissimum ad intellegendum mundum physicum et mathematicum, et est unum ex libris classicis in historia scientiae.This Book Is In Latin.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.