Louis Godin was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He worked in Peru, Spain, Portugal and France.
Louis Godin
Charles Marie de La Condamine
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 based on astro-geodetic observations. Furthermore he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie.
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