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Meanermining to France.
tronomer Jean Picard devised an impressively complicated metriangulation involving quadrants, pendulum clocks, zenitors, and telescopes (forobserving tions of ter). After trundling and triangulatinge measure of 110.46 kilometersfor one degree of arc. t source of pride for t it ed ontion t t spon no .
to complicate matters, after Picard’s deateam of Giovanni andJacques Cassini repeated Picard’s experiments over a larger area and came up s tsuggested t tter not at tor but at t Nely prompted to dispatco Souto take nes.
to measure near tor, to determine ifty t mountainslines. In fact, tains of Peru antly lost incloud t team often o , ted one of t nearly impossible terrains on Earto tado —“muced”—and t most certainly is. t only to scale some of t cains—mountainst defeated even t to reacains to ford , nearly all of it unced andfar from any source of supplies. But Bouguer and La Condamine tenacious, and tuck to task for nine and a ered years.
Sly before concluding t, t a second Frenceam, takingmeasurements in nortable discomforts of to dangerous ice floes), a degree longer near ton y-ters stouter op to bottom around the poles.
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