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Encyclopedia > Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles-Marie de La Condamine

Charles Marie de La Condamine (January 28, 1701 - February 4, 1774) was a French geographer and mathematician. Image File history File links Charles_Marie_de_La_Condamine_1701-1774. ... Image File history File links Charles_Marie_de_La_Condamine_1701-1774. ... is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ... is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War. ... A geographer is a crazy psycho whose area of study is geocrap, the pseudoscientific study of Earths physical environment and human habitat and the study of boring students to death. ... Leonhard Euler, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ...


La Condamine was born in Paris. He was trained for the military profession, but turned his attention to science and geographical exploration. After taking part in a scientific expedition in the Levant (1731), he became a member with Louis Godin and Pierre Bouguer of the expedition sent to Peru in 1735 to determine the length of a degree of the meridian in the neighbourhood of the equator, discovering rubber in the process. His associations with his principals were unhappy; the expedition was beset by many difficulties, and finally La Condamine separated from the rest and made his way from Quito down the Amazon, ultimately reaching Cayenne. His was the first scientific exploration of the Amazon. He returned to Paris in 1744 and published the results of his measurements and travels with a map of the Amazon in Mém. de l'Académie des Sciences, 1745 (English translation 1745-1747). This included the first descriptions by a European of the Casiquiare canal and the curare arrow poison prepared by the Amerindians. This article is about the capital of France. ... The Levant The Levant (IPA: ) is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ... Louis Godin (February 28, 1704 - September 11, 1760) was a French astronomer. ... Pierre Bouguer (February 16, 1698 – August 15, 1758) was a French mathematician. ... // The French Geodesic Mission (also called the First Geodesic Mission and the Spanish-French Geodesic Mission) was an 18th-century expedition to Ecuador carried out for the purpose of measuring the roundness of the Earth and measuring the length of a degree of longitude at the Equator. ... On the earth, a meridian is a north-south line between the North Pole and the South Pole. ... World map showing the equator in red In tourist areas, the equator is often marked on the sides of roads The equator marked as it crosses Ilhéu das Rolas, in São Tomé and Príncipe. ... For other uses, see Quito (disambiguation). ... This article is about the river. ... Cayenne is the capital of the French overseas région of French Guiana. ... The Casiquiare is a distributary of the upper Orinoco, which flows southward into the Rio Negro. ... Strychnos toxifera by Koehler 1887 This page is about the plant toxins. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...


On a visit to Rome La Condamine made careful measurements of the ancient buildings with a view to a precise determination of the length of the Roman foot. The journal of his voyage to South America was published in Paris in 1751. He also wrote in favour of inoculation, and on various other subjects, mainly connected with his work in South America. He died in Paris. Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Inoculation, originally Variolation, is a method of purposefully infecting a person with smallpox (Variola) in a controlled manner so as to minimise the severity of the infection and also to induce immunity against further infection. ...


External links

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References

  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
  • Victor Wolfgang von Hagen: South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce. New York: Knopf, 1945
  • Robert Whitaker: The Mapmaker's Wife. London: Doubleday, 2004. (The full story of the expedition to South America, drawn from the original documents)
Preceded by
Louis-Gui de Guérapin de Vauréal		 Seat 23
Académie française
1760-1774		 Succeeded by
Jacques Delille

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La_Condamine biography (474 words)
La Condamine spent five months in Cayenne on his journey home and here he repeated Richer's experiments on the variation of weights at different latitudes.
The last survivor of the expedition, La Condamine, who was a less gifted astronomer than Godin and a less reliable mathematician than Bouguer often received the major part of the credit, probably because of his amiable nature and his talent as a writer.
La Condamine was a close friend of Maupertuis for many years.
Charles Marie de la Condamine: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com (437 words)
Charles Marie de la Condamine (Jan. 28, 1701-Feb. 4, 1774), was a French mathematician, physicist, explorer, and geographer.
La Condamine was sent to Ecuador in 1735 to measure the Earth at the equator.
La Condamine is also said to have thought of the idea of introducing vaccinations for smallpox in Europe since he had suffered from smallpox as a child (Edward Jenner later developed the actual vaccine).
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