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Charles Marie de La Condamine

1701 - 1774

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Charles Marie de La Condamine (French: [la kɔ̃damin]; 28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Marie de La Condamine has received more than 164,091 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Charles Marie de La Condamine is the 91st most popular explorer (down from 85th in 2019), the 1,152nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,090th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Explorer.

A French explorer and mathematician, Charles Marie de la Condamine is most famous for his expedition to Peru and Colombia in 1735-1736, during which he measured the length of a degree of latitude at the equator.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 91 out of 498. Before him are Sebastian Cabot, Jean de Béthencourt, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Tristão da Cunha, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, and Benjamin of Tudela. After him are Bjarni Herjólfsson, Robert FitzRoy, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Carsten Niebuhr, Martín Alonso Pinzón, and Calamity Jane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1701, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 5. Before him are Anders Celsius, Anna Magdalena Bach, Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, and Maria Amalia of Austria. After him are Pietro Longhi, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Sharaku, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Johan Agrell, and Nicolai Eigtved. Among people deceased in 1774, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 4. Before him are Louis XV of France, Pope Clement XIV, and François Quesnay. After him are Robert Clive, Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Jacques-François Blondel, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Oliver Goldsmith, and Johann Friedrich Agricola.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 1,152 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Giraudoux (1882), Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), Jeanne d'Évreux (1310), Louis Jourdan (1921), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), and Emmanuel Chabrier (1841). After him are Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580), Marcel Dupré (1886), André Maginot (1877), André Bazin (1918), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), and Henry I of Navarre (1244).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 10. Before him are Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), and Jean de Béthencourt (1362). After him are Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), and René Caillié (1799).

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