First Scientific Exploration of the Amazon River Led by Charles-Marie De La Condamine
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In an expedition intended to take the most accurate measurements ever of Earth, a team of French scientis...
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Charles-Marie De La Condamine
1701-1774
French Mathematician and Explorer
Charles-Marie de la Condamine led the first foreign scientific expedition into the Spanish territories of the New World. After...
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Charles-Marie De La Condamine
1701-1774
French geographer whose celebrated Peru expedition (1735-44), along with Pierre Maupertuis' Lapland expedition (1736-37), helped verify Isaac Newton�...
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Charles-Marie de La Condamine
Born January 27, 1701, Paris, France Died February 4, 1774, Paris, France
During the eighteenth century scientists debated the shape of the earth. Was it a sphere, swol...
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First Scientific Exploration of the Amazon River Led by Charles-Marie De La Condamine
Charles-Marie de La Condamine