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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
We must now speak of two important expeditions, which ought to have settled the animated discussion as to the shape of the earth. The Academy of Sciences had despatched a mission to America, to compute the arc of the meridian at the Equator. It was composed of Godin, Bouguer, and La Condamine.
It was decided to entrust a similar expedition to the North to Maupertuis.
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- Project Gutenberg's Celebrated Travels and Travellers(Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century), by Jules Verne
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