Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America by Neil Safier

Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America

Neil Safier

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nonfiction historical history science
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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. ...

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