Consequences of Ignoring the Curvature of the Earth in Nineteenth-Century Large Surveys: A Case Study of Geometrical Geodesy and the Survey of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company Eighty-Mile Reserve

Author:

Rolbiecki David A.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Chief of Survey, Texas Military Dept., Texas National Guard, Camp Mabry, Austin, TX 78703. ORCID: .

Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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