Geodesy

🇺🇸Richard F. Pettigrew

Law

1848–1926

"Each act of aggression, each new expedition of conquest is prefaced by a pronouncement containing a moral justification and an assurance to the victims of the imperial aggression that all is being done for their benefit."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science

1777–1855

"Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density."