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

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

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Product details

  • ISBN-13: 9780756774295
  • ISBN: 0756774292
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Publisher: DIANE Publishing Company

AUTHOR

Alder, Ken

SUMMARY

"Ken Alder's exhaustive book about the flawed (but not failed) attempt to create a new unit of measurement, the metre, amid the chaos of France in the 1790s strikes just the right balance between pop and science."Alder, Ken is the author of 'Measure of All Things The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756774295 and ISBN 0756774292.

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