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The Shape of the Earth
The big question was ar the shape of the earth. And this provided an objective way of distinguishing between the correctness of cartesianism and of neutonianism. Emily de chateley immersed herself in mathematics so deeply in her mid twenties, partly because she found them absolutely fascinatinga she was very entrigued by what mopeti was doing. So pierre mopetui vindicated the newtonian version of the shap of the earth - can we do we know why?