Once Upon a Time... The Explorers
Season 1
Ep 16. La Condamine
- TV-G
- December 31, 1995
- 25 min
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(18)
1735 - a heated argument is raging in the distinguished Science Academy of Paris. Is the earth round as a potato as Newton has said, or is it rather pear- shaped, a theory favoured by some of the French scientists ? There is but one way to find out : an expedition shall go to take measurements at the Equator, and another one in Lapony.