IF YOU HAD to select the least vivial stific field trip of all time, you could certainlydo worse than the French Royal Academy of Sces’ Peruvian expedition of 1735. Led by ahydrologist named Pierre Bouguer and a soldier-mathemati named Charles Marie de Lai arty of stists and adventurers who traveled to Peru with the purposeulating distahrough the Andes.
At the time people had lately bee ied with a powerful desire to uand theEarth—to determine how old it was, and how massive, where it hung in space, and how it hade to be. The French party’s goal was to help settle the question of the circumferehe pla by measuring the length of one degree of meridian (or 1/360 of the distance aroundthe pla) along a line reag from Yarouqui, near Quito, to just beyond what isnow Ecuador, a distance of about two hundred miles.
1Almost at ohings began to g, sometimes spectacularly so. In Quito, the visitorssomehow provoked the locals and were chased out of town by a mob a……（内容加载失败！）
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