| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The eighteent h century French effort to meas ure an arc of the meridian as part of the controversy of the shape of the Earth conferred eternal honor on the body with which it originated, the French Academy of Sciences.62 Yet the expedition was a disaster, and known 60 Ibid., 118-9. 61 Ibid., 1:348.
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