Crossword-Solution: GEODESISTS
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| Experts in determining the exact shape and size of the earth | 1 answer |
| Scientists who measure the exact shape and size of Earth | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EACMEZ
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eruption
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Sentences with GEODESISTS (5)
Continental geodesists continued to favor the general use of convertible pendulums and absolute determinations of gravity, while their English colleagues had turned to invariable pendulums and relative determinations, except for base stations.
Contemporaneously with this era, and following on through the seventeenth century, came the measurements of the earth by French geodesists, the construction of greater and greater telescopes and the wonderful discoveries with them by Huygens, Cassini, and many others.
Finally I have endeavored to give in a few lines the history of the development of French geodesy; I have shown through what persevering efforts, and often what dangers, the geodesists have procured for us the knowledge we have of the figure of the earth.
One knows that the steeples, which are visible from so far, and can be aimed at with precision, often serve as signal points to geodesists.
Among the geodesists of former times there were often discussions, of which some aroused long echoes.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2018–2020).