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The Chapter briefly illustrates the historical development of the concept of Figure of the Earth. The purpose is to arrive at a sharp definition of this concept to be used in the framework of the modern approach to the determination of the Earth gravity field via the solution of a Boundary Value Problem. The main formulation of the geodetic Boundary Value Problem (GBVP), known as Molodensky Problem, is also introduced in two versions, non-linear and linear.
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Sansò, F., Sideris, M.G. (2017). Physical Geodesy and Its Boundary Value Problems. In: Geodetic Boundary Value Problem: the Equivalence between Molodensky’s and Helmert’s Solutions. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46358-2_1
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