French Geodetic and Scientific Expedition to Lapland

U radu je opisano mjerenje duljine dijela meridijanskog luka u Laplandu (danas na granici Švedske i Finske). Ekipa je na terenu imala velike poteškoće u radu zbog klimatskih uvjeta i svladavanja konfiguracija terena. Međutim, uspjeli su dokazati da Zemlja približno ima oblik rotacijskog elipsoida te potvrditi Newtonova i Huygensova teorijska predviđanja da je duljina luka jednog stupnja meridijana u blizini pola veća nego na manjim geografskim širinama.The paper describes surveying a part of the meridian arc in Lapland (border of Sweden and Finland). The field team had great difficulty with the climate and terrain configuration. However, they managed to prove that the Earth is roughly shaped as a rotational ellipsoid and confirm theoretical assumptions on Newton and Huygens that the arc length of one meridian degree near a pole is greater than at smaller latitudes