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Clairaut's theorem (gravity) — Wikipedia (en)

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Clairaut's theorem characterizes the surface gravity on a viscous rotating ellipsoid in hydrostatic equilibrium under the action of its gravitational field and centrifugal force. It was published in 1743 by Alexis Claude Clairaut in a treatise which synthesized physical and geodetic evidence that the Earth is an oblate ellipsoid. It was initially used to relate the gravity at any point on the Earth's surface to the position of that point, allowing the ellipticity or the flattening of the Earth to be calculated from measurements of gravity at different latitudes. Today it has been largely supplanted by the Somigliana equation.

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; ricerca «history of mathematics»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Clairaut's theorem (gravity)» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairaut%27s_theorem_(gravity)
Wikidata Q1068385: «formula for the surface gravity on a viscous rotating ellipsoid in hydrostatic equilibrium under the action of its gravitational field and centrifugal force» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1068385
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