Based on "Heiskanen/Moritz" which served for more than 30 years as a standard reference

Treats physical geodesy encyclopaedically

Seamless blend of new ideas and methods (GPS, satellites, collocation)

Motivation.- Fundamentals of potential theory.- Gravity field of the earth.- Gravity reduction.- Heights.- The geometry of the earth.- Gravity field outside the earth.- Space methods.- Modern views on the determination of the figure of the earth.- Statistical methods in physical geodesy.- Least-squares collocation.- Computational methods.