Flat Earth and Amazons

D. Graham Burnett
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D. Graham Burnett: D. Graham Burnett is an editor at Cabinet magazine in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches history of science at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. His latest book is Trying Leviathan.

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7207, 942-943

Abstract: Charles-Marie de La Condamine's quest to Peru to calculate Earth's flattened shape included some adventures that didn't make it into the offical records at the time, finds D. Graham Burnett.

Date: 2008
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