The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world /
In June 1792, the erudite and cosmopolitan Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre and the cautious and scrupulous Pierre-Francois-Andre Mechain set out from Paris -- one north to Dunkirk, the other south to Barcelona to calculate the length of the meter. In the face of death threats from village revolutiona...
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New York :
Free Press,
[2002]
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QB291 .A43 2002 |
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