Bibliograph

Latitude, the true story of the world's first scientific expedition, Nicholas Crane

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Latitude, the true story of the world's first scientific expedition, Nicholas Crane

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index

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contains biographical information

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platesillustrationsportraitsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Latitude

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1273920221

Responsibility statement

Nicholas Crane

Sub title

the true story of the world's first scientific expedition

Summary

"Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator", Provided by publisher

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