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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780743216760
  • ISBN: 0743216768
  • Publication Date: 2003
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Alder, Ken

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"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 2003 under ISBN 9780743216760 and ISBN 0743216768.

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