Latitude the true story of the World's First Scientific expedition
"Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved th...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Pegasus Books
2021
London Distributed by Simon & Schuster New York, New York |
| Ausgabe: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition October 2021 |
| Schlagworte: |
1700-1799
> Latitude
> Measurement
> Scientific expeditions
> History
> Geodesy
> Observations
> Discoveries in science
> Discoveries in geography
> Latitude - Amérique du Sud
> Expéditions scientifiques - Amérique du Sud - Histoire - 18e siècle
> Géodésie - Observations - Histoire - 18e siècle
> Géodésie - Amérique du Sud
> Expéditions scientifiques - Pérou
> Découvertes scientifiques
> Découvertes géographiques
> HISTORY - Expeditions & Discoveries
> HISTORY - Civilization
> TRANSPORTATION - Navigation
> Geodesy - Observations
> Latitude - Measurement
> Peru
> Discovery and exploration
> South America
> Südamerika
> Forschungsreise
> Breitenkreis
> Geodäsie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator" In 1735 twelve men boarded ships bound for South America. Their mission: to discover the true shape of the earth. Crane documents this expedition to measure one degree latitude at the equator. He shows how their endeavors were not limited to this one achievement: they also discovered rubber and quinine. On a continent of unmapped rainforests and ice-shrouded volcanoes, beset by egos and disease, mutiny and murder, the world's first international team of scientists struggled for a decade to reach the single figure they sought. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 257 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781643137957 978-1-64313-795-7 1643137956 1-64313-795-6 |