La Condamine, Charles Marie de (1701-74)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3782. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Paris, France, had an army career, was sent by the Académie Royale to Peru to measure the length of a degree of meridian at the equator, repeated (at Cayenne in Guyana) RICHER's experiments on the variation of weights at different latitudes. Although a less gifted astronomer than Godin and a less reliable mathematician than BOUGUER (both his colleagues), he often received the major part o...

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