Measure of the Earth

Measure of the Earth

The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World

by Larrie D. Ferreiro

376 pages· 2011· ISBN 9780465017232
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Describes the early 18th-century expedition of scientists sent by France and Spain to colonial Peru to measure the degree of equatorial latitude, which could resolve the debate between whether the earth was spherical or flattened at the poles.

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