Charles-Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/36161
- Name (English)
- Charles-Marie de La Condamine
- Short name
- Charles Marie de La Condamine
- Year of birth
- 1701
- Year of death
- 1774
- Short Description
- "Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) 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. Furthermore he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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