Scientific Entreprise, Academic Adventure and Drawing-Room Culture in the Geodesic Mission to Quito

• Main Authors: Lafuente, Antonio, Estrella, Eduardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedad Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnología 1987
• Subjects: Enlightenment; Colonial science; scientific crontroversies; Quito; globalization; Laponia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/16361

For many years, a large part of the European scientific activity was focused on the identification of relevant problems concerning the shape of the Earth. This was of course accompanied by the search and development of theoretical and/or experimental solution to these problems. This influenced the d...