Mission Südland
- Episode aired Sep 14, 2003
Mission Southland: How Bougainville Found Out About The Globe When in 1766 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville left Nantes in France on the expedition vessel "La Boudeuse", the mathematician and d... Read allMission Southland: How Bougainville Found Out About The Globe When in 1766 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville left Nantes in France on the expedition vessel "La Boudeuse", the mathematician and diplomat intended to be one of the first man to circumnavigate the earth. The fact that the... Read allMission Southland: How Bougainville Found Out About The Globe When in 1766 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville left Nantes in France on the expedition vessel "La Boudeuse", the mathematician and diplomat intended to be one of the first man to circumnavigate the earth. The fact that the earth was a sphere was not accepted everywhere yet. When Bougainville discovered Tahiti o... Read all