Earth:Meridian arc of Delambre and Méchain
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The meridian arc of Delambre and Méchain was a geodetic survey carried out by Jean-Baptiste Delambre and Pierre Méchain in 1792–1798 to measure an arc section of the Paris meridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona; it served as the basis for the original definition of the metre.[1]
See also
- Cartography of France
- Earth's circumference
- Earth radius
- History of geodesy
- History of the metre
- Meridian arc
- Metre
- Paris meridian
References
- ↑ Alder, K. (2002). The Measure of All Things: The Seven-year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-1675-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=gQu6uMyYrB4C. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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