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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Table of Contents:
- North-going astronomer
- South-going astronomer
- Metric of revolution
- Castle of Mont-Jouy
- Calculating people
- Fear of France
- Convergence
- Triangulation
- Empire of science
- Broken arc
- Mechain's mistake, Delambre's peace
- Metered globe
- Epilogue: Shape of our world.