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Charles Marie de La Condamine
* 1701 in Paris
+ 1774 in Paris
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Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.
He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator
and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.
2017 J. Giesen