I stumbled upon a few interesting books that you may find as interesting as I have. These books will be particularly interesting to geodetic surveyors and those surveyors across the planet who annually participate in Survey Earth in a Day. Flat- Earthers may find them to challenge their theories.

A history of the determination of the figure of the earth from arc measurements

by Butterfield, Arthur Dexter, 1870-

Publication date 1906

Topics Geodesy, Arc measures

Publisher Worcester, Mass., Davis press

Collection americana

Digitizing sponsor Google

Book from the collections of University of California

Language English

The figure of the earth : Roberts, Frank Calvin : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Sec. I. Historical -- sec. II. The oblate spheroidal hypothesis

Another great book worth checking out.

An introduction to geodetic surveying. In three parts: I. The figure of the earth. II. The principles of least squares. III. The field work of triangulation

by Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925

Publication date 1892

Topics Geodesy

Publisher New York, T. Wiley & sons

Collection americana

Digitizing sponsor Google

Book from the collections of University of California

Language English

And yet another great book worth checking out.

The figure of the earth

by Roberts, Frank Calvin

Publication date 1885

Topics Earth -- Figure

Publisher New York : D. Van Nostrand

Collection cdl; americana

Digitizing sponsor MSN

Contributor University of California Libraries

Language English

Sec. I. Historical -- sec. II. The oblate spheroidal hypothesis

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A history of the determination of the figure of the earth from arc measurements

An introduction to geodetic surveying. In three parts: I. The figure of the earth. II. The principles of least squares. III. The field work of triangulation

The figure of the earth

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