Anyone interested in the Quito and the equator should read "The Mapmakers Wife" by Robert Whitaker. The historical story tells of the time the French and the English disagreed on the shape of the earth and an expedition was mounted to measure the circumference of the earth. Not an easy thing to do in the 18th century. Fred Jaggi --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
