The Shape of the Earth

Duration: 0:29:00

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Louis De Rochemont Associates | McGraw-Hill Book Company | National Academy of Science

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the development of maps and of geodetic ideas from pre-scientific guesses to the present. Discusses the size, shape, and rotation of the earth and the position of the earth relative to its axis of rotation. Explains the use of the moon and artificial satellites as geodetic tools.

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