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The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named

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Author: John Keay

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 208

Much the longest such measurement hitherto made, it posed horrendous technical difficulties, made impossible physical demands on the survey parties and took over 50 years. But the scientific results were commensurate, including the discovery of the world’s highest peaks and a new calculation of the curvature of the earth’s surface.

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