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Measure of All Things The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

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ISBN-10: 074321675X

ISBN-13: 9780743216753

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ken Alder

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/24/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Dramatis Personae
Prologue
The North-Going Astronomer
The South-Going Astronomer
The Metric of Revolution
The Castle of Mont-Jouy
A Calculating People
Fear of France
Convergence
Triangulation
The Empire of Science
The Broken Arc
Mechain's Mistake, Delambre's Peace
The Metered Globe
Epilogue: The Shape of Our World
Note on Measures
Note on Sources
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index