Meaning of geodæsy | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic spelling of geodesy.

alt-of, archaic, uncountable

Examples

“This he effected by a combination of geodæsy with astronomy, namely, by comparing the distance from Alexandria to Syene with the corresponding arc of the meridian.”

“Geography is the description of the earth’s superficies; geodesy, or, as it might be written without affectation, geodæsy, (Γεωδαισια, from γεα, earth, and δαιω, I divide⟳, assign, distribute), is the knowledge of the earth’s solid form⟳ and shape⟳, the distribution of the portions which make⟳ up the terrestrial map, their depressions and elevations, their ins and outs, their regularities and irregularities.”

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