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SUMMARY:The Problem of the Earth's Figure and the Logic of Measurement in 
 Modern Geoscience - Miguel Ohnesorge\, History and Philosophy of Science
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CONTACT:Dr Tamsin Samuels
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the inferential structure and justification of s
 cientific measurements is a crucial problem for scientists and philosopher
 s of science alike. However\, the classical views that have informed philo
 sophical theories of measurement and various attempts to establish new qua
 ntitative measures are almost exclusively based on case studies from exper
 imental physics or behavioural science. My work aims to enrich our underst
 anding about the aims and justification of measurement by focussing on the
  some central problems in the history of physical geoscience\, where measu
 red system are significantly more complex and it is virtually impossible t
 o shield measurements from confounding perturbations. In this talk\, I pre
 sent some of my results based on a study of measures of the earth’s pola
 r flattening in 18th and 19th century physical geodesy.
LOCATION:King Richard Room\, Darwin College
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