Measure Of The Earth
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Measure of the Earth
| Author | : Larrie D. Ferreiro |
| Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2011-05-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0465017231 |
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Describes the early 18th-century expedition of scientists sent by France and Spain to colonial Peru to measure the degree of equatorial latitude, which could resolve the debate between whether the earth was spherical or flattened at the poles.
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