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【万物简史】PART II CH 4事物的测定（1）

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童鞋们，今天开始《万物简史》的第二部分要向我们讲述探索地球大小的故事。这一部分分为几个章节，首先为大家带来的内容是历史上人类测量地球地理距离的一些故事，探索路漫漫，还有很艰辛很雷人的事情发生，究竟是什么是呢，来认真听写揭晓答案吧~~~

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PART II THE SIZE OF THE EARTH
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;
God said, Let Newton be! [---1---]
-Alexander Pope

4 THE MEASURE OF THINGS
IF YOU HAD to select the least convivial scientific field trip of all time, you could certainly do worse than the French Royal Academy of Sciences’ Peruvian [-2-]of 1735. Led by a hydrologist named Pierre Bouguer and a soldier-mathematician named Charles Marie de La Condamine, it was a party of scientists and adventurers who traveled to Peru [-3-] triangulating distances through the Andes.

[---4---] The French party’s goal was to help settle the question of the circumference of the planet by measuring the length of one degree of meridian (or 1/360 of the distance around the planet) along a line reaching from Yarouqui, near Quito, to just beyond Cuenca in what is now Ecuador, a distance of about 200 miles.

Almost at once things began to go wrong, sometimes spectacularly so. [---5---] Soon after, the expedition’s doctor was murdered in a misunderstanding over a woman. The botanist became deranged. Others died of fevers and [-6-]. The third most senior member of the party, a man named Pierre Godin, [-7-] with a 13-year-old girl and could not be [-8-] to return.