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Charles Marie de La Condamine

 * 1701 in Paris
+ 1774 in Paris
 

   

Charles Marie
                de La Condamine



Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.
He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator
and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.

Pierre Louis Maupertuis


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