Charles Marie de La Condamine
French explorer and geographer
Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region... Wikipedia
Born: January 1701, Paris, France
Died: February 4, 1774 (age 73 years), Paris, France
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society
Nationality: French
Books
An Account [By C.M. De La Condamine?] of a Savage Girl [M.a. Memmie Le Blanc] Caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne, Tr. From the Fr. of Madam H-T
1768
A Discourse on Inoculation, Read Before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, the 24th of April 1754. By Mr. la Condamine. ...
1755
Abridged Narrative of Travels Through the Interior of South America From the Shores of the Pacific Ocean to the Coasts of Brazil and Guyana, Descending the River of Amazons
An Account of a Savage Girl, Caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne
1768
An Extract From the Observations Made in a Tour to Italy, by the Chevalier de la Condamine, ... Translated by a Fellow of the Royal Society, With an Alphabetical Index
Journal of a Tour to Italy
1763