The Measure Of All Things The Seven Year Odyssey That Transformed The World

Author: Ken Alder

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Price : $39.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780316859899
Publisher : Little Brown
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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.