Charles Marie de La Condamine
French mathematician
Died when: 73 years 16 days (876 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) 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 observations.
Furthermore he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie.
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