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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America

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Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (June 14, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226733629
ISBN-13: 978-0226733623
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1944772
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook

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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astro...

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