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FROM great scientific undertakings, such as geographical expeditions, or geodetical, geological, and magnetic surveys of large areas, mankind generally derives, besides the utility of the work itself, a vast amount of contingent benefit. The result forms not only a landmark of scientific progress, but the work serves also for applying and testing a number of antecedent theoretical or practical discoveries, for separating what is sound from the unsound, and finally it rouses contemporaneously the mental energy of those more or less intimately connected with it to new exertions.
Geodesy.—Studien über höhere Geodasie.
By Dr. C. Bremiker. (Berlin 1869.)
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L., B. Geodesy—Studien über höhere Geodasie. Nature 1, 54 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001054a0
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