Jean Picard
![Picard by [[Henri Testelin]], c. 1680](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Jean_Picard_portrait.jpg)
He is principally notable for his accurate measure of the size of the Earth, based on a careful survey of one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian. Provided by Wikipedia
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12by K.N. Koeppel, H. Bertschinger, M. Van Vuuren, J. Picard, J. Steiner, D. Williams, J. CardwellGet full text
Published 2006-06-01
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13by Cengiz Kaya, Tomas N. Generalovic, Gunilla Ståhls, Martin Hauser, Ana C. Samayoa, Carlos G. Nunes-Silva, Heather Roxburgh, Jens Wohlfahrt, Ebenezer A. Ewusie, Marc Kenis, Yupa Hanboonsong, Jesus Orozco, Nancy Carrejo, Satoshi Nakamura, Laura Gasco, Santos Rojo, Chrysantus M. Tanga, Rudolf Meier, Clint Rhode, Christine J. Picard, Chris D. Jiggins, Florian Leiber, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Martin Hasselmann, Wolf U. Blanckenhorn, Martin Kapun, Christoph SandrockGet full text
Published 2021-05-01
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