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Charles Marie de La Condamine
La Condamine by Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1768) Pierre-Philippe Choffard (1759)
Born
28 January 1701
Paris, France
Died
4 February 1774 (aged 73)
Paris, France
Nationality
French
Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations. Furthermore he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie.[1]
^Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1989) Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 145
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