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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America
Author: Neil Safier
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equator?an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the min...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226733555
ISBN-10: 0226733556
Publication Date: 9/15/2008
Pages: 428
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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