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“Geodesy” is a term coined by the Greeks in order to replace the original term “geometry”, which had meanwhile lost its original meaning of “earth or land measuring” (surveying) and acquired the new meaning of an abstract “theory of shapes”. Aristotle tells us in his “Metaphysics” that the two terms differ only in this respect: “Geodesy refers to things that can be sensed, while geometry to things that they cannot”. Many centuries afterwards the word geodesy was set in use anew, to denote the determination of the shape of initially parts of the earth surface and eventually, with the advent of space methods, the shape of the whole earth. Thus it remained an applied science, while facing at the same time significant and challenging theoretical problems, in both physical modeling and data analysis methodology.
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Dermanis, A., Rummel, R. (2000). Data analysis methods in geodesy. In: Dermanis, A., Grün, A., Sansò, F. (eds) Geomatic Method for the Analysis of Data in the Earth Sciences. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45597-3_2
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