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	La_Condamine biography
		La Condamine spent five months in Cayenne on his journey home and here he repeated Richer's experiments on the variation of weights at different latitudes.
		The last survivor of the expedition, La Condamine, who was a less gifted astronomer than Godin and a less reliable mathematician than Bouguer often received the major part of the credit, probably because of his amiable nature and his talent as a writer.
		La Condamine was a close friend of Maupertuis for many years.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/La_Condamine.html (474 words)

	Charles Marie de la Condamine: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
		Charles Marie de la Condamine (Jan. 28, 1701-Feb. 4, 1774), was a French mathematician, physicist, explorer, and geographer.
		La Condamine was sent to Ecuador in 1735 to measure the Earth at the equator.
		La Condamine is also said to have thought of the idea of introducing vaccinations for smallpox in Europe since he had suffered from smallpox as a child (Edward Jenner later developed the actual vaccine).
	www.zoomschool.com /explorers/page/l/lacondamine.shtml (437 words)

	La Condamine, Charles Marie de - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		LA CONDAMINE, CHARLES MARIE DE [La Condamine, Charles Marie de], 1701-74, French traveler and mathematical geographer.
		He was one of a group sent to Peru in 1735 to measure the length of an arc of one degree of the meridian at the equator.
		Quito centre of the ancient world: a lone researcher in the Ecuadorian Andes has uncovered evidence of a civilisation of astronomers who, as far back as 1500 BC, were capable of calculating the movement of the sun with the same accuracy as the latest satellite positioning equipment.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lacondam.html (319 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charles-Marie de la Condamine
		Two officers of the Spanish marine, Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, represented the Government of Spain on the voyage and also made independent observations in the interior.
		Condamine went to Ecuador and there began his labours, making a fairly accurate triangulation of the mountainous parts and the western sections of Ecuador.
		While Condamine on account of his ambition and inclination to controversy was a disagreeable character, as an explorer and physicist he stands very high.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04210a.htm (345 words)

	Charles Marie de La Condamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Marie de La Condamine (January 28, 1701 - February 4, 1774) was a French geographer and mathematician.
		His associations with his principals were unhappy; the expedition was beset by many difficulties, and finally La Condamine separated from the rest and made his way from Quito down the Amazon, ultimately reaching Cayenne.
		On a visit to Rome La Condamine made careful measurements of the ancient buildings with a view to a precise determination of the length of the Roman foot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles-Marie_de_la_Condamine (338 words)

	Reference - Charles Marie De La Condamine
		Charles Marie de La Condamine (January 28, 1701 - February 4, 1774) was a France geographer and mathematician.
		His associations with his principals were unhappy, the expedition was beset by many difficulties, and finally La Condamine separated from the rest and made his way from Quito down the Amazon River, ultimately reaching Cayenne.
		On a visit to Rome La Condamine made careful measurements of the ancient buildings with a view to a precise determination of the length of the Foot (unit of length).
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO2696/charles-marie-de-la-condamine-reference.html (239 words)

	Charles Marie de la Condamine - The Great Unknown, The Great Explorers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		La Condamine's description of the Indians' lifestyle and of their hunting and fishing techniques is especially valuable, as it gives us another record of Indian cultures now lost to us.
		La Condamine noted that some Indians fished by sprinkling a fine powder (extracted from local plants) onto the surface of the water.
		Although La Condamine marveled at the secrets about the plants and animals that he learned from the Indians, he was not impressed with the Indians themselves.
	www.phfawcettsweb.org /condam.htm (1094 words)

	The Science--Cayambe in Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is entitled "Vue de la Base mesurée dans la plaine d'Yarouqui..." and first appeared in La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774: Journal du voyage fait par ordre du Roi a l'Équateur : servant d'introduction historique a la mesure des trois premiers degres du meridien / par M. De La Condamine.
		La Condamine was part of a scientific expedition sent by the French Academy in 1735 to measure the length of a degree of the meridian along the equator.
		One last note of interest: La Condamine writes that the Expedition initialy intended to lay out the baseline on the plain of Cayambe, but they ultimately decided against it because the plain of Cayambe is uneven and cut by two rivers.
	school.johncooper.org /inti/CayambeinArt.htm (3101 words)

	Hotel La Cienega Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		La Cienega hotel is one of best country inns of Ecuador.
		Situated near the slopes of the majestic Cotopaxi volcano and its National Park, this mansion has been the scene of important happenings in the scientific and social history of the country.
		Manuel Matheu y Herrera, Francisco Xavier and José Xavier de Ascázubi, members of the manor house, who were fervent defenders of the cause for independence (1810) prior to Simon Bolívar`s battles.
	www.geocities.com /haciendaec/index.html (81 words)

	Daniel Charles Marie Mordant ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Daniel Charles Marie Mordant, Au bord de la mer, 1881
		Daniel Charles Marie Mordant, Almanach de L"Art, 1883
		Daniel Charles Marie Mordant - Louis-Eugène-Gabriel Isabey - The Marriage of Henri IV
	www.wwar.com /masters/m/mordant-daniel_charles_marie.html (679 words)

	Inoculation--A means of protection people or propagating smallpox: Spain and New Spain, 1779-1800
		Barbara Rodriguez de Velasco," and how mild her case was: "Ynoculada el dia 4 de octubre, desde antes del festivo dia de San Carlos, ha gozado de la sociedad dentro y fuera de su casa, sin rezelo" (Morel 1780:59-60).
		The inoculated survived, Viceroy Martín de Mayoraga endorsed the procedure, the Protomedicato of the City bestowed its approval, and the Ayuntamiento authorized the establishment of a clinic in the Convent of San Hipólito, at some distance from the city.
		La gente de los Pueblos, es de corto animo, y horrorizada con las amenazas de la Justicia, se han retrahido de una operacion, tan util a mi vecindario, y que si se impide, ocasionara en el, el mismo estrago, que se ha llorado en las epidemias anteriores.
	www.hist.umn.edu /~rmccaa/inoc1794/inoc.htm (5496 words)

	TealDragon - History of Rubber Stamps
		Charles Marie de la Condamine, French scientist and explorer of the scenic Amazon River, had no idea there would ever be such a thing as a rubber stamp when he sent a sample of "India" rubber to the Institute de France in Paris in 1736.
		Prior to de la Condamine, Spanish explorers had noted that certain South American Indian tribes had a light-hearted time playing ball with a substance that was sticky and bounced, but it failed to rouse their scientific curiosity.
		Charles Klinkner, who established his West Coast stamp house in 1873, would have been the pride of any modern-day publicity agent.
	www.tealdragon.net /rs/rshist.htm (2985 words)

	LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de, Journal du Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi, a l'Équateur, servant d'Introduction ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de, Journal du Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi, a l'Équateur, servant d'Introduction historique a la Mesure des Trois Premiers Degrés du Méridien.
		This is the second account by La Condamine (1701-74), of the famous expedition to Peru which had as its goal the verification of Newton's hypothesis on the flattening of the terrestrial globe in the polar regions and, thereby, the resolution of the controversy regarding the form of the earth that was then dividing French scientists.
		Maupertuis, Clairaut, and Le Monnier went to Lapland to measure several degrees of meridian at the arctic circle, while Godin, Bouguer, and La Condamine were sent to Peru.D.S.B., XV, p.
	www.polybiblio.com /jahill/526.html (183 words)

	Ecuador Galapagos Hacienda La Cienega Ecuador Hosterias Ecuador Travel and Tours
		Hosteria La Cienega is one of Ecuador's oldest colonial haciendas.
		Today, tastefully converted into a first-class hotel, La Cienega offers the visitor the unique experience of staying within its two-meter thick volcanic stone walls which stand as silent witnesses to the history of a people and the poetry of an era.
		La Cienega is an unforgettable souvenir of your visit to the Andes.
	www.surtrek.com /la_cienega_ecuador.html (271 words)

	History
		Charles-Marie de la Condamine scientist of the Paris Academy of Science, headed the group of distiguished scientists, members of the Geodesic Mission in 1736 to these remote lands to measure the meridians close to the equator and to investigate other scientific fields.
		Famous visitors include Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa who were appointed by the King of Spain to host the Geodesic Mission in 1736, the awesome scientific enterprise organized and led by Charles-Marie de la Condamine, Alexander von Humboldt German scientist, renown naturalist and explorer and the illustrious English mountain climber Edward Whymper.
		ntonio de Ulloa, Spanish scientist and member of this expedition, made a singular drawing of the architectural Inca complex in San Agustin de Callo and with fellow scientist, Jorge Juan, wrote a descriptive document of what they observed at the ruins.
	www.incahacienda.com /pages/history.html (680 words)

	Charles Marie de La Condamine - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		La Condamine nimmt nach kaum vollendeten Schulstudien an der Belagerung von Roses in Spanien teil.
		Auf der Rückreise fährt La Condamine als erster wissenschaftlich gebildete Mann im Sommer 1744 den Amazonas hinab, von dem er die erste auf astronomische Bestimmungen begründete Karte entwirft.
		Condamine, Charles-Marie de La französischer Mathematiker und Astronom
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Charles_Marie_de_La_Condamine (407 words)

	A National Historic Chemical Landmark: United States Synthetic Rubber Program
		The French explorer Charles-Marie de la Condamine reported in 1745 that South American Indians used it for footwear and bottles.
		In 1823, Charles Macintosh, using naphtha, a better solvent, laminated sticky rubber cloth and fabric together to make raincoats.
		It was Charles Goodyear who discovered a way to cure natural rubber to make it more useful.
	center.acs.org /landmarks/landmarks/rbb/rbb_natural.html (226 words)

	Brazil and Europe
		Manaus and the Amazon river, the Iguassu Falls, the Fernando de Noronha Islands, Florianopolis and Santa Catarina, the huge bird swam paradise called Pantanal, and Brazilian paradisiacal beaches of the Northeast coast… are now major highlights attracting European travellers.
		The French naturalist Charles-Marie de La Condamine is, perhaps, the most outstanding French scientist associated to the exploration and modern knowing of Brazil’s territory.
		The myth of the Amazon woman is largely connected to the early Spanish exploration of the river, namely to the explorer Francisco de Orellana, who have descended the main course of the Amazon, from the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic, in 1541–42.
	www.brazil-travel-guide.com /Brazil-Consulates.html (2054 words)

	Amazon Maps 18th Century - La Condamine 1780 map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774) was one of the greatest scientists of 18th Century France.
		This 1780 map shows the Amazon River based on his charts drawn during his voyage to Peru in 1743 to 1744.
		Learn more about the La Condamine 1780 map
	www.junglephotos.com /amazon/ammaps/amoldmaps/lacondamine1780.shtml (97 words)

	La Condamine, Charles-Marie de- (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Compì, assieme a Bouguer, la misura dell'arco di meridiano in Perú (1736-43).
		La sua fama è soprattutto legata a una serie di trattati in cui sintetizzò gli studi di matematica del sec.
		La Condamine, Charles-Marie de- - matematico e geodeta francese (Parigi 1701-1744).
	itscienza.net.cob-web.org:8888 /scienza/La%20Condamine-%20Charles-Marie%20de--885.html (350 words)

	Charles Marie de La Condamine - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CHARLES MARIE DE LA CONDAMINE (1701-1774), French geographer and mathematician, was born at Paris on the 28th of January 1701.
		He returned to Paris in 1744 and published the results of his measurements and travels with a map of the Amazon in Mein.
		de l'academie des sciences, 1745 (English translation 1745-1747).
	www.1911ency.org /Charles_Marie_de_La_Condamine (270 words)

	RU Coll Honors Course
		Charles Marie de La Condamine, A Succinct Abridgement of a Voyage Made Within the Inland Parts of South-America [1735-45].
		Mon 28: Charles Marie de La Condamine, A Succint Abridgement of a Voyage Made Within the Inland Parts of South-America.
		Thurs 31: Charles Marie de La Condamine (cont.).
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~jmarcone/honsyll.htm (810 words)

	Biographies Info Science : La Condamine Charles-Marie (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Il fréquente les cercles de scientifiques de la capitale et devient bientôt membre de l'Académie des sciences (1730).
		Il décide de prendre la mer pour un voyage de cinq mois autour du bassin méditerranéen.
		Impressionnée par son périple, l'Académie des sciences confie à La Condamine la tête d'une expédition au Pérou avec pour objectif de mesurer la longueur d'un arc de méridien.
	www.infoscience.fr.cob-web.org:8888 /histoire/biograph/biograph.php3?Ref=151 (300 words)

	AllRefer.com - Charles Marie de La Condamine (Geography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Charles Marie de La Condamine (Geography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Charles Marie de La Condamine[shArl mArE´ du lA kONdAmEn´] Pronunciation Key, 1701–74, French traveler and mathematical geographer.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Charles Marie de La Condamine
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	Hacienda La Cienega near Cotopaxi.
		La Cienega is one of the country's most prestigious haciendas.
		In colonial times it hosted illustrious guests like Alexander von Humboldt or Charles Marie de la Condamine and his French scientific geodesic mission team.
		Also many former Ecuadorian presidents stayed there on their travels through the country and now it serves the public in general.
	www.ecuador-images.net /hacienda.cienega.htm (106 words)

	Speedy Stamps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1770 it was a novel idea to rub out (hence the name rubber) pencil marks with the small cubes of rubber, called peaux de negres by the French.
		Alas, the cubes were both expensive and scarce, so most folks continued to rub out their errors with bread crumbs.
		It was the beginning of a new era and even pioneer stamp personage B.B. Hill, then eighty years old with fifty years in the business behind him, was on hand to hear the International Stamp Trade Manufacturers Association voted into existence.
	www.sstamps.com.au /facts.htm (3485 words)

	ELEP - EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ECUADORIAN PROGRAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the environmental, Ecuador has contributed notably to the environmental sciences.
		The first scientific expedition to explore the Amazon basin, led by Charles-Marie de La Condamine, departed from Ecuador; the renowned naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin used Ecuadorian research to help establish basic theories of modern geography, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
		(La Paz, Bolivia is the highest at over 12,000 ft).
	www.elep.org /elep2.htm (549 words)

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