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387 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226733555
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 April 2008
Description
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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387 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226733555
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 April 2008
Description
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. ...