The Measure of All Things
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0316859893 / Publisher: Time Warner Books UK, September 2002
Amidst the fervour of the Revolution, two French scientists were sent on an expedition to measure th...
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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.
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