Weighing The World: Christopher Columbus
Edwin Danson is a Chartered Surveyor and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. His new book, Weighing the World: The Quest To Measure the Earth , he chronicles the stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through the jungles, crossed the arctic tundra, and braved the world’s highest mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. In the excerpt below we learn how Christopher Columbus discovered the Earth was much, much larger than previously believed.
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