What happened in the 1730s?
🌍 First Global Geodetic Survey (1735): French expedition led by Charles Marie de La Condamine measures the length of a degree of latitude at the equator.
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Further Reading
- French Geodesic Mission to the Equator - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- French Geodesic Mission | Encyclopedia MDPI (encyclopedia.pub)
- Charles Marie de La Condamine - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- Charles-Marie de La Condamine - Linda Hall Library (lindahall.org)
- The Remarkable Story of the First Accurate Measure of the Earth (popularmechanics.com)
- The Expedition | Robert Whitaker Books (robertwhitakerbooks.com)
- French Geodesic Mission (Podcast) | Travels Through Time (tttpodcast.com)
- French scientists at the Equator, 1735 (blogspot.com)