Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (born 1701)

Charles Marie de La Condamine

French explorer, geographer and mathematician (1701–1774)

Charles Marie de La Condamine 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…