2009/08/31 by Charles F. F. Karney, F. W. Bessel, R. Deakin +1 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Historical Geography and Cartography #physics.comp-ph #physics.geo-ph #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/asna.201011352
published as Astron. Nachr. 331(8), 852-861 (2010) · 11 pages, including 1 figure and 4 pages of tables. Version 2 and 3 fix some minor errors. This translation was edited by Charles F. F. Karney and Rodney E. Deakin. A transcription of the original paper is available at arXiv:0908.1823 . For links to other 18th and 19th century papers on geodesics, see http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/geodesic-papers/biblio.html
openalex publication_date 2010/09/01 · arxiv created 2012/03/29 · arxiv updated 2012/03/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The solution of the geodesic problem for an oblate ellipsoid is developed in terms of series. Tables are provided to simplify the computation. [This is an English translation of F. W. Bessel, Astronomische Nachrichten 4(86), 241-254 (1825). The mathematical notation has been updated to conform to current conventions and, in a few places, the equations have been rearranged for clarity. Several errors have been corrected, a figure has been included, and the tables have been recomputed.]