SECTION VI.. Form of the Earth and Planets—Figure of a Homogeneous Spheroid in

Form of the Earth and Planets—Figure of a Homogeneous Spheroid in Rotation—Figure of a Spheroid of variable Density—Figure of the Earth, supposing it to be an Ellipsoid of Revolution—Mensuration of a Degree of the Meridian—Compression and Size of the Earth from Degrees of Meridian—Figure of Earth from the Pendulum