G

Gadbled, Christophe, 366 -7

Gadolin, Jacob, 64

Galileo (Galileo Galilei), 28

Gamble, John, 130 -1

Gardens, 65 , 66

Gartner, C.F. von, 287

Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 204

Genera morborum (Linnaeus), 98

Genera plantarum (Jussieu), 80

Genera plantarum (Linnaeus), 55

Genus, 271

Geodesy, 179 ;

methods of compared, 188 , 189 -90;

problems of 18th century, 183.

See also Earth

Geodetic instruments, 192 , 193 ;

achromatic lens, 193 ;

repeating circle, 193 , 194 -5, 200 , 217 , 224 -5; 225 ;

pendulum, 219 -22, 224 ;

theodolites, 6 , 200

Geodetic surveys:

French led in, 183 ;

a resource for centralized government, 201 .

See also Measurement of arcs of meridian

Geoffroy, Etienne François, 261

Geographische Geschichte des Menschen und der allgemein vierfüssigen Thiere (Zimmermann), 58 -9

Geography. See Cartography; Earth; Geodesy

Geoid model, 205 -6

Géomètre philosophe , 376

Geometrical grid, 201 , 236

Geometry:

analytic, 100 -2;

Euclidean, 3 , 384 ;

geometric forms, 89 ;

shift from geometric to arithmetic mentality, 71 ;

spirit of, 1 , 2 , 71 , 83 -6;

three dimensional, 102 -3.

See also Measurement of arcs of meridian

Geschichte der Physik (Fischer), 9

Gillispie, Charles, 389 , 392

God:

existence of, 35 -7;

plan of, 21 , 356 ;

plenitude dilemma, 63

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 69

Gonde, Gustaf, 41 -2

Grand nomenclateur , 123

Great chain of being, 59 -60, 61 , 70 ;

changes in concept of, 62 -3

Great Copper Mine, 295

Greenwood, Isaac, 147

Grosses vollständiges Universal Lexicon (Zedler), 20 , 47

Gulliver's Travels (Swift), 395 -6

Guns, 18 .

See also Military