A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth

From the Time of Newton to that of Laplace

af Isaac Todhunter

Published in 1874, this two-volume work by Isaac Todhunter (1820-84), perhaps the greatest of Victorian historians of mathematics, takes an important mathematical story from Newton, through the expeditions which settled certain questions in Newton's favour, to the investigations of Laplace which opened a new era in mathematical physics.