Charles Marie de La Condamine

Charles Marie de La Condamine (January 28, 1701 - February 4, 1774) was a French geographer and mathematician.

References

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• Victor Wolfgang von Hagen: South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce. New York: Knopf, 1945
• Robert Whitaker: The Mapmaker's Wife. London: Doubleday, 2004. (The full story of the expedition to South America, drawn from the original documents)