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HISTORICALLY the relations between geodesy and astronomy have always been of the most intimate character, and the contributions of Bessel, Strave and Gill, famous as astronomers, to measured arcs and the adjustment of observations still play a fundamental part in the determination of the figure of the earth. It was therefore appropriate, the more so since astronomy is becoming increasingly concerned in its objects and methods with physics, that the Royal Astronomical Society should have recalled its association with geodesy by inviting Prof. N. E. Norlund, president at the recent London meeting of the International Council of Scientific Unions, to deliver the annual George Darwin Lecture before the Royal Astronomical Society on May 14.
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Astronomical Determination of Longitudes and Azimuths. Nature 139, 894 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139894a0
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