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Author Alder, Ken, author

Title The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey that transformed the world / Ken Alder
Published London : Little, Brown, 2002
London : Little, Brown, [2002]
©2002

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 MELB SPC NAUGHTIN  526.1 Ald/Moa 2002  AVAILABLE
Description 466 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
regular print
Summary Amidst the fervour of the Revolution, two French scientists were sent on an expedition to measure the world and establish the metre, which was to be one ten-millionth the distance from pole to equator.As one went north and the other south, their experiences diverged just as radically
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-456) and index
Subject Borda, Jean-Charles de, 1733-1799.
Delambre, J. B. J. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), 1749-1822.
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807.
Méchain, Pierre, 1744-1804.
Arc measures -- History.
Astronomers -- France -- Biography.
Meter (Unit) -- History.
Mathematics.
Metric system -- History.
Metric system.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0316859893
9780316859899