# Comparative geography

Author: Ritter, Carl, 1779-1859; Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73615

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Comparative+geography+Ritter&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The measurements of, and investigations into the figure of the earth, have led, as already stated in the introduction, to no absolutely certain conclusion; yet they have made it certain that the earth is, in a general sense, a spheroid. There are many discrepancies, as were then stated, from the perfectly spheroidal shape; still it is in this sense a spheroid, that the polar diameter is not of the same length with the equatorial diameter.

## Chapters

- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/comparative-geography-73615/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/comparative-geography-73615/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/comparative-geography-73615/chapters/3/index.md)