===================================================== THE JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL DATA -- Volume 29 -- 2023 ====================================================== [JAD 29, 1] BOOK REVIEW: Three Millenniums of Measurement of Earth I--V. Notes on the History of determining the Size and Shape of the Earth using Meridian Arcs 1. From earliest times to Riccioli c.800BC-c.1660 2. From Picard to the Peruvian arc c.1650-c.1744 3. From Maclaurin to Cavendish c.1740-c.1820 4. From Svanberg to Arc of the 30th meridian c.1800-c.1955 5. From Spitzbergen to Bomford c.1880-c.1960 VI. Meridian Arcs in East & Southern Africa with Emphasis on the Arc of the 30th Meridian VII. Connection between the Struve Geodetic Arc and the Arc of the 30th Meridian Jan De Graeve & Jim R. Smith