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Latitude : the True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition by Nicholas, author Crane is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Latitude : the True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition about?
Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. 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 latitu
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nicholas, author Crane
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books Distributed by Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781643137957
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Astronomy, History
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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