Charles Marie de La Condamine
French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
- Lived
- 1701–1774
- Country
- France
Updated September 2026
About Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations. Furthermore he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie.
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