Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America

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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "sacred fire" passing mysteriously through European astronomical...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226733556

ISBN13:9780226733555

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:428 Pages

Weight:1.65 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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History Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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