List of important geodesics

The list contains important geodesics .

antiquity

• Eratosthenes (approx. 275 to 194 BC), Alexandria: Writing about measuring the earth , determining the circumference of the earth.
• Hipparchus (approx. 190 to 120 BC), Nicaea: Positioning on earth with the help of geographical latitude and longitude .
• Poseidonios (135–51 BC), Rhodes: Geography .
• Claudius Ptolemy (around 100 to 180), Alexandria: astronomy , geography .

middle Ages

• Muhammad al-Idrisi (around 1100–1166), Arabia / Sicily: cartography , geography

Early modern age

• Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop (1610–1682), Netherlands: cartography , astronomy , surveying.
• Matthias Oeder († 1614), Electoral Saxony: Markscheider , land surveying, cartography .
• Jean Picard (1620–1682), France, astronomy , degree measurement Paris – Amiens

Around 1700 to 1800

• Johann George Schreiber (1676–1750), Germany, Electorate of Saxony , geodesist, cartographer, copper printer, publisher
• Pierre Bouguer (1698–1758), France: gravity anomalies , degree measurement of long meridian arcs in South America.
• Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759), France: Degree measurement in South America.
• Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787), Rome / Berlin / Paris: astronomy , degree measurement , adjustment calculation .
• James Cook (1728–1779), London: Cartography
• William Lambton (approx. 1756–1823), Great Britain and India: initiator and first head of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India
• Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833), Paris: Mathematics, z. B. Least squares method or Legendre's theorem .
• Johann Georg Lehmann (1765-1811), Dresden: Lehmannsche Schraffen .

Around 1800 to 1900

• George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), London: Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory .
• Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794–1885), Berlin: Officer in the Prussian General Staff and founder of the European degree measurement .
• Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind (1818–1894), Munich: Professor of Geodesy.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846), Königsberg: Degree measurement , determination of the figure of the earth ( Bessel ellipsoid ), mathematical principles.
• Heinrich Bruns (1848-1919), Berlin: Theory of the earth figure .
• Alexander Ross Clarke (1828–1914), London: Definition of various earth ellipsoids .
• Loránd Eötvös (1848–1919), Hungary: Changes in severity .
• George Everest (1790–1866), Great Britain and India: Head of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India and Surveyor General of India .
• Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855), Braunschweig / Göttingen: mathematical principles, adjustment calculation , Gaussian land survey .
• Peter Andreas Hansen (1795–1874), Gotha: Practice and theory of land surveying.
• Friedrich Hartner (1811–1877), Vienna: Author of the handbook and textbook of lower geodesy
• Josef Philipp Herr (1819–1884), Vienna: Head of the first special chair for earth measurements in Europe
• Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917), Potsdam: Theoretical geodesy such as the basics of geoid determination , adjustment calculation , coordinate transformation
• Wilhelm Jordan (1842–1899), Germany: Founder of the Handbook of Surveying .
• Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809–1864), Java / Sumatra: Land surveying in Indonesia.
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), Paris: Celestial Mechanics
• August Nagel (1821–1903), Dresden: Professor of Geodesy, Royal Saxon Triangulation .
• Friedrich Paschen (1804–1873), Schwerin: Land surveying in Mecklenburg, level observations on the Baltic Sea.
• Paolo Pizzetti (1860–1918), Italy: Professor of Geodesy, Theory of Errors .
• Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), Paris: Organization of surveying expeditions to Peru, astronomy .
• John Septimus Roe (1797–1878), Perth , Australia : First Surveyor-General of Western Australia .
• Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780–1850), Altona: founder of the Altona observatory and the celestial journal Astronomische Nachrichten .
• Johann Georg von Soldner (1776–1833), Munich: Soldner coordinate system .
• Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793–1864), Germany: Struve arch .
• Inō Tadataka (1745–1818), Japan: first complete map of Japan.
• Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878), Great Britain and India: Surveyor-General of India and Head of Great Trigonometric Surveying .

Since around 1900

• Kurt Bretterbauer (1929–2009), Vienna: Professor and founder of Geoscientific Communications .
• Eduard Dolezal (1862–1955), Vienna: is considered the founder of modern Austrian land surveying.
• Wilhelm Embacher (1914–2008), Innsbruck: developer of methods and instruments, e.g. B. Embacher method for geographic location determination.
• Erik Grafarend (* 1939), Stuttgart: mathematical geodesy , compensation calculation .
• Wilfried Grunau , (* 1958), Edewecht: President of the VDV since 1993, initiator and co-founder of the geodesy interest group , co-author of the German surveying and geographic information system .
• John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925), USA: Determination of the earth figure , Hayford ellipsoid .
• Weikko A. Heiskanen (1895–1971), Finland: leading geodesy in Scandinavia.
• Siegfried Heitz (* 1929), Bonn: physical-mathematical basics of geodesy.
• Heribert Kahmen (* 1940), Hanover, Vienna: textbook author, co-author of the Goose series surveying .
• Max Kneissl (1907–1973), Munich: Author and editor of the multi-volume handbook of surveying.
• Karl-Rudolf Koch (* 1935), Bonn: Compensation calculation and satellite geodesy .
• Feodossi (Theodor) Krassowski (1878–1948), Russia: Earth measurement and adjustment calculation , Krassowski ellipsoid .
• Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (1857–1923), Berlin: Co-developer of the Gauß-Krüger coordinate system .
• Karl Ledersteger (1900–1972), Vienna: astronomical and physical geodesy , author of a volume of the handbook of surveying .
• Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), Copenhagen: seismologist, first demonstrated the existence of a solid core in 1936, refuted the theory of the hollow earth discussed since Halley and Newton.
• Michail Sergejewitsch Molodenski (1909–1991), Russia: scientific and practical justification of normal heights .
• Helmut Moritz (* 1933), Graz: physical geodesy.
• Theodor Niethammer (1876–1947), Switzerland: Astrogeodesy, Switzerland's gravity network .
• Karl Rinner (1912–1991), Graz: author of textbooks and two volumes of the handbook of surveying .
• Harald Schuh (* 1956), Potsdam: Research in the field of Very Long Baseline Interferometry .
• Wolfgang Torge (* 1931), Hanover: Earth measurement, textbook author.
• Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz (1887–1966), The Netherlands: Gravity measurement .
• Helmut Wolf (1910–1994), Bonn: first transnational geoid determination in Central Europe.