1826/01/01 by Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, F. W. Bessel +2 · 4 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/asna.18260041601
11 pages, including 4 pages of tables. Versions 2 and 3 fixes some broken links. A facsimile of the original paper by F. W. Bessel is available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1825AN......4..241B . This transcription is by Charles F. F. Karney and Rodney E. Deakin. An English translation of this paper is available at arXiv:0908.1824
arxiv created 2012/03/29 · arxiv updated 2012/03/30
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 a transcription of F. W. Bessel, Astronomische Nachrichten 4(86), 241-254 (1825). The text follows the original; however the mathematical notation has been updated to conform to current conventions. Several errors have been corrected and the tables have been recomputed.]