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	La Condamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Condamine is the second oldest district in Monaco.
		La Condamine is also part of a larger subdivision known as La Condamine quartier.
		The La Condamine quartier includes, in addition to La Condamine proper, the districts of Moneghetti, Les Revoires, and La Colle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Condamine (127 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 (343 words)

	Charles Marie de la Condamine - The Great Unknown, The Great Explorers
		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.
		Although La Condamine marvelled at the secrets about the plants and animals that he learned from the Indians, he was not impressed with the Indians themselves.
		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.
	www.phfawcettsweb.org /condam.htm (1140 words)

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		Fresneau became infected with la Condamine's enthusiasm for rubber and was the first western person to consider it as a potential industrial material.
		In 1751 la Condamine presented a paper by Fresneau to the Académie (eventually published in 1755) which described many of the latter’s findings and this can truly be called the first scientific paper on rubber.
		La Condamine was a close friend of Maupertuis for many years.
	www.bouncing-balls.com /timeline/people/nr_condamine.htm (582 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's journal of his 10-year adventure, "Journal du Voyage fait par l'ordre du Roi á l'equateur," was published in 1751.
		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.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/l/lacondamine.shtml (437 words)

	Charles-Marie de la Condamine
		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.
		The topographical work performed by him or under his direction suffered from the relative imperfections of the instruments in use in his time, but the results obtained were astonishing.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/condamine,charles-marie_de_la.html (358 words)

	Bouguer
		La Condamine was a member of the same expedition and its third scientific member was the leader of the expedition Louis Godin.
		La Condamine, he made measurements in Peru in 1740 publishing his results in La Figure de la terre (1749).
		La Condamine to determine the length of a degree of meridian.
	www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Bouguer.htm (641 words)

	Inti Travel and Tours - Galapagos, Ecuador and Peru - Hotels, Resorts and Jungle Lodges - La Cienega
		Situated near the slopes of majestic Cotopaxi volcano and its National Park, this mansion has been the scene of important events in the scientific and social history of the country.
		, 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.discovergalapagos.com /intitravel/cienaga.html (222 words)

	Explorers - L - EnchantedLearning.com
		Charles Marie de la Condamine (1701-1774), was a French mathematician, explorer, and geographer.
		La Condamine was sent to Ecuador in 1735 to measure the Earth at the equator.
		La Salle named the entire Mississippi basin Louisiana, in honor of the King, and claimed it for France on April 9, 1682.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/indexl.shtml (1099 words)

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		It was during this period, in1846, that he and la Condamine met and carried out some scientific researches together.
		He was not interested but it eventually fee into the hands of The Academy of Science in Paris and thence to la Condamine who, having known and worked briefly with Fresneau gave it his support and presented it to the Academy on February 21st 1751.
		La Condamine said there would be no problem but suggested that it be rewritten as a scientific paper rather than retain its existing form as a report to the minister.
	www.bouncing-balls.com /timeline/people/nr_fresneau.htm (886 words)

	A2Z Languages - Quito, Ecuador - Amazonas - Activities
		It is here in 1736, Charles-Marie de La Condamine's expedition made the measurements that showed that this was where the equator was indeed to be found.
		The monument is the massive 30-meter high "La Mitad Del Mundo." You can ride to the top of the monument using an elevator and view the village of San Antonio, and the grounds surrounding the monument itself.
		The stone trapezoidal "La Mitad Del Mundo" monument is literately built on the equator (you will see a line running through the center of the stairs and walk way leading up to the monument) so you have the opportunity to stand in both the Northern and Southern hemisphere at the same time.
	www.a2zlanguages.com /Ecuador/Quito/Amazonas/middle.htm (643 words)

	Volcanoes in the Andes, 1751 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the mathematicians, La Condamine, took an interest in the mountains of the Andes that flank Quito, their base of operations.
		In June of 1742, having climbed the peak of Pichincha to examine its crater, La Condamine observed an eruption of a volcano called Cotopaxi.
		In his 180-degree wide-angle view of the mountains that lie west of Quito, La Condamine shows Cotopaxi at the far left (identified with the number 2), in the process of erupting.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/vulcan/38_large.shtml (151 words)

	Table of Contents: Colonial Botany
		While La Condamine entered Spanish territory on official business—to find these measurements and to chart the course of the Amazon—he is famous for having taken this opportunity to spirit away seedlings of the precious Peruvian bark trees (Cinchona officinalis) from which quinine derived and of trees yielding valuable caoutchouc (rubber).
		La Condamine's interests, motivations, aims, and failures are representative of the volatile nexus of botanical science, commerce, and state politics that is the focus of this volume.
		Moreover, like other naturalists, La Condamine overestimated the extent to which plants could be appropriated and reacclimatized; his efforts to transplant the delicate cinchona plants were in vain.
	www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/toc/14093.html (5867 words)

	Pierre Bouguer
		In 1729 he published Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière, the object of which is to define the quantity of light lost by passing through a given extent of the atmosphere.
		He found the light of the sun to be 300 times more intense than that of the moon, and thus made some of the earliest measurements in photometry.
		In 1735 Bouguer sailed with C.M. de la Condamine for Peru, in order to measure a degree of the meridian near the equator.
	www.nndb.com /people/065/000100762 (304 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		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.
		Author not available, LA CONDAMINE, CHARLES MARIE DE.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:LaCondam (73 words)

	Charles Marie de la Condamine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles Marie de la Condamine in 1736, a French scientist and explorer, was the first European to bring back the natural substance called "India" rubber to the Institute de France in Paris.
		Europeans were rubbing out pencil marks with small cubes of rubber, the substance that Condamine had brought to Europe from South America.
		However, this patent was later held to be invalid because it was merely the combination of two things, without a new use.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Engineering_Graphics/2002/electric_eraser/history_page.htm (199 words)

	Sometimes Useful
		La Condamine isn't the first visitor to the Americas who was amazed by natural rubber.
		But almost fifty years after the Tsachali show Condamine how to use rubber, another use for the material will be discovered by two French brothers with their heads in the clouds.
		Charles Marie de La Condamine - a biographical sketch from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
	www.pslc.ws /macrog/exp/rubber/bepisode/euro.htm (758 words)

	Hacienda La Ciénega
		Among the important celebrities that have resided at La Ciénega, noteworthy are: Charles Marie de la Condamine, French scientist who participated in the Geodesic Mission (1736-44) that determined the true shape of the earth as accepted toda, y and laid the path towards the development of a universal system of measure the meter.
		Today, tastefully converted into a hostal, La Ciénega offers the visitor the unique experience of staying at this colonial jewel, within its 2 meter thick volcanic stone walls, silent witnesses of the history of a people and the poetry of an era.
		Surrounded by breath-taking natural beauty and rich folkloric manifestations, La Ciénega is an unforgettable souvenir nestled in the Andes.
	www.geocities.com /ecuador2001log/accommodations/haciendas/lacienega/lacienega.html (213 words)

	Reporter at Large: The Amazons
		La Condamine continued downstream and, around the mouth of the Tapaj6s, he encountered the few Tapaj6 Indians who still lived there.
		According to La Condamine, in Europe they were called pierreries divines and were worn around the neck as a treatment for colic, epilepsy, and "nephritic pains." (One kind of jade, in fact, is called nephrite, from the Greek for "kidney.") The green stones of Amazonia are often carved into frogs.
		The spot had been sacred to the Tapajo Indians: they had told La Condamine that most of their green stones came from the lagoon at Alter do Chao.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/brazil/amazons2.html (2789 words)

	Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List: L
		La Salle (Robert Cavelier, sieur de) (in French)
		Bartolome de las Casas, Missionary, Priest, Defender of the Oppressed
		Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Tradition of Medieval Law
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/alpha/l.html (1316 words)

	Inoculation--A means of protection people or propagating smallpox: Spain and New Spain, 1779-1800
		A Spanish translation of a contentious treatise on inoculation, a dissertation by the French philsophe Charles-Marie de La Condamine, was denied a license and went unpublished for over two centuries (Riera and Granda-Juesas 1987).
		Ninguno de los inoculadores niega, que las viruelas artificiales son igualmente contagiosas que las naturales: y todos conocen por la observacion, que...
		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)

	Tomfolio.com: History: South America and Carib, Brazil
		La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774 Relation Abrégée d'un Voyage Fait Dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique Méridionale, : depuis la côte de la mer du Sud,...
		Nouvelle édition augmentée de la relation de l'emeute populaire de Cuença au Pérou, et d'une lettre de M. Godin des Odonais, contenant la relation du voyage de Madame, Godin, son epouse, &c.
		La República de Chile y el Imperio del Brasil.
	www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=3161&lo=3 (3156 words)

	Terry Mockler's Journey Through Cyberspace: February 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence.
		Charles Marie de la Condamine and the French Geodesic Mission to Measure the Equator(Jan. 28, 1701-Feb. 4, 1774), was a French mathematician, physicist, explorer, and geographer.
		They finished their measurements by 1739, measuring the length of an arc of one degree at the equator, but they got word that the Lapland expedition had already finished their work and had proven that the Earth is flattened at the poles.
	terrymockler.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_terrymockler_archive.html (2083 words)

	Monte Carlo
		Compared with the marinas at nearby Nice or Marseille, La Condamine is more orderly and clean, yet certainly no less busy or packed with places to eat or things to do.
		It is virtually surrounded by great vantage points such as in this photo, taken from the castle grounds of Monaco-Ville, or in the various criss-crossing streets in the mountains behind.
		La Condamine is also great if you have a few spare million
	www.tompgalvin.com /places/mc/monte_carlo.htm (661 words)

	L to LA
		L to LA LA GRACE, or LES GRACES
		LA VILLEMARQIJE, THEODORE CLAUDE HENRI, VICOMTE HERSART DE
		LACEPEDE, BERNARD GERMAIN ETIENNE DE LA VILLE, COMTE DE
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /index/L-LA.htm (25 words)

	Amazon Maps 18th Century - La Condamine 1780 map
		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.
		The maps shows the full length of the Amazon River rising in the Andes mountains (labeled as "Alto Maranon") and flowing east to the Atlantic Ocean to just below Cabo Norte (C. de Nord = Cape North) on the northeast coast of Brazil.
	www.junglephotos.com /amazon/ammaps/amoldmaps/lacondamine1780.shtml (97 words)

	FeralChildren.com \| Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l'âge de dix ans, publiée par Madame ...
		La Condamine, Charles-Marie de and Tinland, Franck (ed)
		FeralChildren.com says A reproduction of La Condamine's book about Memmie LeBlanc, with much additional material and a comprehensive preface by Tinland.
		An expanded version of La Condamine's work of 1758.
	www.feralchildren.com /en/listbooks.php?bk=tinland1970 (245 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.
		Some tribes had found rubber handy as an adhesive when attaching feathers to their person; and the so-called "head-hunting" Antipas, who were fond of tattooing, used the soot from rubber that had been set on fire.
	www.tealdragon.net /rs/rshist.htm (2985 words)

	Accommodation in Europe - Holiday Rentals in Spain, Italy, France, Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The charming property of château de la Condamine is situated in a small hamlet both an agricultural and vineyard community close to Uzès with its well preserved Renaissance architecture (15 km), the roman city of Nîmes with its famous arena (30 km) and the Pont du Gard (25 km).
		The classical facade overlooks a walled park “à la française”of some 10 000 m2 with shady walks between pruned box trees and a private swimming pool (11m x 5m) with its solarium.
		We installed an alarm for the swimming pool, and all the area is closed by a gate.
	www.awacs.com /residences/uk/F6129N1.htm (332 words)

	FeralChildren.com \| An Account of a Savage Girl [M. A. Memmie LeBlanc] caught wild in the woods of Champagne [by La ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An Account of a Savage Girl [M. Memmie LeBlanc] caught wild in the woods of Champagne [by La Condamine translated by Robertson] with a preface [by Lord Monboddo] containing several particulars omitted in the original account.
		This narrative was dawn up under the immediate inspection of M de la Condamine, whose curiosity and accuracy in matters of this sort, is universally known; and the commencement of whose acquaintance and connection with Mademoiselle Le Blanc will be found in page 22.
		It not only bears in its bosom the plainest mark of truth and authenticity; bit if any doubt on this head remained, the facts it relates could be still attested by many living witnesses.
	www.feralchildren.com /en/pager.php?df=robertson (684 words)

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