Editing Arc measurement (section)

=== Chronological list ===
This is a partial chronological list of arc measurements:<ref>{{cite book | title=A history of the determination of the figure of the earth from arc measurements |author= Butterfield, Arthur Dexter | publisher=Internet Archive | date=1906 | page=156 | url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorydetermi00buttgoog/page/n168/mode/1up | ref={{sfnref|Internet Archive|2016}} | access-date=2025-01-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Arc Measures | website=International Institution for the History of Surveying and Measurement | url=https://www.fig.net/organisation/perm/hsm/history_of/measurements/arc.asp | ref={{sfnref|International Institution for the History of Surveying and Measurement}} | access-date=2025-01-27}}</ref>
* 230 B.C.: [[Eratosthenes' arc measurement]]
* 100 B.C.: [[Posidonius' arc measurement]]
* 724 AD: [[Yi Xing's arc measurement]]
* 827 A.D.: [[Al-Ma'mun's arc measurement]]
* 1528: [[Fernel's arc measurement]]
* 1617: [[Snellius' survey]]
* 1633-1635: [[Norwood's arc measurement]]
* 1658: [[Riccioli and Grimaldi's arc measurement]]
* 1669: [[Picard's arc measurement]]
* 1684-1718: [[Dunkirk-Collioure arc measurement (Cassini, Cassini, and de La Hire)]]
* 1736-1737: [[French Geodesic Mission to Lapland]] 
* 1735-1739: [[French Geodesic Mission to the Equator]]
* 1740: [[Dunkirk-Collioure arc measurement (Cassini de Thury and de Lacaille)]]
* 1750-1751: [[Maire and Boscovich's arc measurement]]
* 1752: [[De Lacaille's arc measurement]]
* 1791-1853: [[Principal Triangulation of Great Britain]]
* 1792-1798: [[meridian arc of Delambre and Méchain]]
* 1802–1841: the [[Great Trigonometric Survey of India]]
* 1806-1809: [[Arago and Biot's arc measurement]]
* 1816-1855: [[Struve Geodetic Arc]]
* 1821-1825: [[Gauss' geodetic survey]]
* 1841-1848: [[Maclear's arc measurement]]
* 1879: [[West Europe-Africa Meridian-arc]]
* 1899-1902: [[Swedish–Russian Arc-of-Meridian Expedition]]
* 1921: [[Hopfner's arc measurement]]