geodæsy

geodæsy (uncountable)

1. Archaic spelling of geodesy.
   • 1858 CE, John William Donaldson and Karl Otfried Müller, A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, J. W. Parker and Son, volume I, chapter XLVI, page #348:

     This he effected by a combination of geodæsy with astronomy, namely, by comparing the distance from Alexandria to Syene with the corresponding arc of the meridian.

   • 1876 CE, conduction by Charles Dickens, All the Year Round, Messrs. Chapman & Hall, volume XVI, page #137:

     Geography is the description of the earth’s superficies; geodesy, or, as it might be written without affectation, geodæsy, (Γεωδαισια, from γεα, earth, and δαιω, I divide, assign, distribute), is the knowledge of the earth’s solid form and shape, the distribution of the portions which make up the terrestrial map, their depressions and elevations, their ins and outs, their regularities and irregularities.