Notable geodesists
Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the first modern geodesists
This is a list of geodesists , people who made notable contributions to geodesy , whether or not geodesy was their primary field. These include historical figures who laid the foundations for the field of geodesy.
Geodesists before 1900 (arranged by date)[ edit ]
Pythagoras , 580–490 BC (ancient Greece )[ 1]
Eratosthenes , 276–194 BC (ancient Greece)
Hipparchus , c. 190–120 BC (ancient Greece)
Posidonius , c. 135–51 BC (ancient Greece)
Menelaus of Alexandria , c. AD 70–140 (ancient Greece)
Claudius Ptolemy , c. AD 83–168 Roman Empire , (Roman Egypt )
Al-Ma'mun , 786–833 (Iraq /Mesopotamia )
Abu Rayhan Biruni , 973–1048 (Iran /Samanid Dynasty )
Muhammad al-Idrisi , 1100–1166 (Arabia /Sicily)
Regiomontanus , 1436–1476 (Germany/Austria)
Abel Foullon , 1513–1563 or 1565 (France)
Pedro Nunes , 1502–1578 (Portugal)
Gerhard Mercator , 1512–1594 (Belgium/Germany)
Snellius , (Willebrord Snel van Royen) 1580–1626 (Netherlands)
Christiaan Huygens , 1629–1695 (Netherlands)
Pierre Bouguer , 1698–1758 (France & Peru)
Pierre de Maupertuis , 1698–1759 (France)
Alexis Clairaut , 1713–1765 (France)
Johann Heinrich Lambert , 1728–1777 (France)
Roger Joseph Boscovich , 1711–1787 (Venetian Republic )
Pierre Méchain , 1744–1804 (France)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre , 1749–1822 (France)
Ino Tadataka , 1745–1818 (Japan)
Georg von Reichenbach , 1771–1826 (Germany)
Pierre-Simon Laplace , 1749–1827 (France)
Adrien-Marie Legendre , 1752–1833 (France)
Johann Georg von Soldner , 1776–1833 (Germany)
George Everest , 1790–1866 (England/India)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel , 1784–1846 (Germany)
Heinrich Christian Schumacher , 1780–1850 (Germany/Russian Empire )
Carl Friedrich Gauss , 1777–1855 (Germany)
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve , 1793–1864 (Russian Empire)
Johann Jacob Baeyer , 1794–1885 (Germany)
George Biddell Airy , 1801–1892 (England)
Carl Christopher Georg Andræ , 1812–1893 (Denmark)
Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind , 1818–1894 (Germany)
Wilhelm Jordan , 1842–1899 (Germany)
Hervé Faye , 1814–1902 (France)
George Gabriel Stokes , 1819–1903 (England)
Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero , 1825–1891 (Spain)
Henri Poincaré , 1854–1912 (France)
Alexander Ross Clarke , 1828–1914 (England)
Charles Sanders Peirce , 1839–1914 (United States)
Friedrich Robert Helmert , 1843–1917 (Germany)
Heinrich Bruns , 1848–1919 (Germany)
Loránd Eötvös , 1848–1919 (Hungary)
Otto Hilgard Tittmann , 1850–1938 (United States)
20th century geodesists (alphabetically arranged)[ edit ]
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