Ada dua misi geodetik inisiatif French Academy of Science. Satu misi di Peru/Ecuador dan satu misi lagi di Lapland, lokasi nama Meanmaa. Petikan wikiwand - link : The French Geodesic Mission to the Equator also called the French Geodesic Mission to Peru and the Spanish-French Geodesic Mission , was an 18th-century expedition to what is now Ecuador carried out for the purpose of performing an arc measurement, measuring the length of a degree of latitude near the Equator, by which the Earth's radius can be inferred. The mission was one of the first geodetic (or geodetic ) missions carried out under modern scientific principles, and the first major international scientific expedition. In the 18th century, there was significant debate in the scientific community, specifically in the French Academy of Sciences ( Académie des sciences ), as to whether the circumference of the Earth was greater around the Equator or aroun...
