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Measuring the New World Safier, Neil Apr 6, 2010

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Title Measuring the New World
Creator Safier, Neil
Contributor Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued 2010-04-06
Description Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equa-tor—an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Join us as Neil Safier places this particular scientific endeavour in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author, from “Measuring the New World.”
Subject history
South America
science
Type Sound
Moving Image
Language eng
Date Available 2010-08-06
Provider Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI 10.14288/1.0076582
URI http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27163
Affiliation Arts, Faculty of
History, Department of
Peer Review Status Unreviewed
Scholarly Level Undergraduate
Rights URI http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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