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Robert Simpson Woodward
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“Closely related to the questions of secular contraction and the are those vexed question of earthquakes, , the liquidity or solidity of the , and the of the earth's mass as a whole—all questions of the greatest interest, but still lingering on the battle-fields of scientific opinion.”
Robert Simpson Woodward (1849–1924) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (quote from p. 65; 1889 offprint; also published in Science, 6 September 1889, vol. 344, pp. 167–172)
“Since the beginning of the eighteenth century almost every of note has been a contributor to or an expositor of the . , Daniel, and , , Euler, d’Alembert, , Lagrange, Lambert, Condorcet, and Laplace are the principal names which figure in the history of the subject during the hundred years ending with the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Of contributions from this brilliant array of mathematical talent, the of Laplace is by far the most profound and comprehensive. It is, like his , still the most elaborate treatise on the subject.”
Robert Simpson Woodward (1849–1924) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (47 pages; 1st published as a chapter in Higher Mathematics, published in 1896 by John Wiley & Sons)
“The path described by a body falling freely from a considerable height above the surface of the earth presents a problem of interest alike to the mathematical and to the . The former sees in it a capital application of the principles of “relative motion” and the latter sees in it a promising way of demonstrating the rotation of the earth. It has attracted perennial attention for more than a century and has frequently been referred to in during the past decade. The mechanical aspects of this problem were first carefully considered by Gauss and Laplace one hundred and ten years ago. Gauss’s equations of motion for a falling body were furnished in a letter to , who was interested especially in the proper interpretation of experimental results. Gauss’s solution is now accessible in the fifth volume of his collected works. He concluded that in addition to the obvious easterly deviation there should be a small meridional deviation toward the equator from the plumb line defined by a suspended from the initial position of the body and to some plane of reference below. It seems probable that this latter conclusion prompted Laplace to reinvestigate the subject, for he published a very remarkable paper in May, 1803, in the Bulletin de la …”
Robert Simpson Woodward (1849–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source