【万物简史】PART II CH 4事物的测定（13）_英语听力练习mp3下载-科学-沪江听力酷

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【万物简史】PART II CH 4事物的测定（13）

听力简介：

法国人认为牛顿的理论是错的，他们认为椭球状的地球突出部分在两极而不是赤道，可是费尽周折测量的结果却证明了牛顿是对的，自己错了~~

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[-1-], after Picard's death the father-and-son team of Giovanni and Jacques Cassini repeated Picard's experiments over a larger area and [-2-] results that suggested that [-3-]—that Newton, in other words, was exactly wrong. It was this that prompted the Academy of Sciences to dispatch Bouguer and La Condamine to South America to take new measurements.

[---4---] In fact, the mountains of Peru were so constantly lost in cloud that the team often had to wait weeks for an hour's clear surveying. On top of that, they had selected one of the most nearly impossible terrains on Earth. Peruvians refer to their landscape as muy accidentado —"[-5-]" — and this it most certainly is. The French had not only to scale some of the world's most challenging mountains—mountains that defeated even their mules—but to reach the mountains they had to ford wild rivers, hack their way through jungles, and cross miles of high, [-6-] desert, nearly all of it uncharted and far from any source of supplies. But Bouguer and La Condamine were nothing if not tenacious, and they stuck to the task for nine and a half long, grim, sun-blistered years. Shortly before concluding the project, they received word that a second French team, taking measurements in northern Scandinavia (and facing notable discomforts of their own, from squelching bogs to dangerous ice floes), had found that a degree was in fact longer near the poles, as Newton had promised. [---7---]