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Welcome to Conversation on Monday, April 20

Welcome to Conversation on Monday, April 20

On this date in 1736, French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis began the Lapland expedition to measure latitude and shape of the earth, joined by fellow scientists Anders Celsius, Charles Etienne Louis Camus, Alexis Clairaut, and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier.

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A return to 1965.