The Spanish-French Geodesic Mission, also called the French Geodesic Mission to Peru, was an 18th-century expedition to what is now Ecuador carried out for the purpose of performing an arc measurement
Part of the ruins of Ingapirca is currently known as La Condamine.
Monument at Ciudad Mitad del Mundo.
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 an
French Geodesic Mission to the Equator
…at the Equator. Previous accurate measurements had been taken in Paris by Cassini and others. The equatorial mission was led by French astronomers Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, Louis Godin and Spanish geographers Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa. They were accompanied by several assistants, including the…
La Condamine by Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1768) Pierre-Philippe Choffard (1759)
La Condamine (Carmontelle 1760)
Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi, a l'équateur, 1751
Mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien dans l'hémisphere austral, 1751