Measure of the Earth

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Measure of the Earth is written by Larrie D. Ferreiro and published by Basic Books (AZ). It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0465017231 (ISBN 10) and 9780465017232 (ISBN 13).

Describes the early 18th-century expedition of scientists sent by France and Spain to colonial Peru to measure the degree of equatorial latitude, which could resolve the debate between whether the earth was spherical or flattened at the poles.