Editing Apps/MaclaurinSpheroids/GoogleBooks (section)

=See Also=
* Our review of the [[ThreeDimensionalConfigurations/HomogeneousEllipsoids#Properties_of_Homogeneous_Ellipsoids|Properties of Homogeneous Ellipsoids]]
* Our derivation of the properties of [[Apps/MaclaurinSpheroids#Maclaurin_Spheroids_.28axisymmetric_structure.29|Maclaurin Spheriods]]
* Wikipedia's documentation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Maclaurin Colin Maclaurin]
* Chandrasekhar's (1967) [http://people.ucsc.edu/~igarrick/EART290/chandrasekhar_1967.pdf historical account]
* [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3603342?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Notes on the Life and Works of colin Maclaurin] by Charles Tweedie (1919)
* <span id="Todhunter1873">[http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=math;cc=math;idno=05710001;view=image;seq=5 I. Todhunter (1873)], ''A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth, from the time of Newton to that of Laplace.''</span>  Note that Todhunter's discussion of Maclaurin's contributions can be found in Chapter IX, pp. 133-175.
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&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>252.</b>&nbsp; &nbsp;"Maclaurin then in his Articles 644 &hellip; 647 investigates accurate expressions for the attraction of any ellipsoid of revolution on a particle at the pole or at the equator.  The investigations are conducted in the manner of the time by representing the attractions by the areas of certain curves, and finding the areas by the method of fluents.  The results agree with those obtained by analysis, and presented in modern works on Statics.  Maclaurin's processes are remarkable specimens of ingenuity, considering the date of their publication; but they will not be very interesting to a modern reader."
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