French Explorers in Quito

These are some formidable explorers on a mission to Ecuador to measure the earth. There's a fine book called the Map-Maker's Wife. Planeta.com feature forthcoming!

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From Wikipedia: The 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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Geodesic_Mi ssion

Quito
www.planeta.com/quito.html

Ecuador
www.planeta.com/ecuador.html

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