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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' with ISBN 9780743244312 and ISBN 0743244311.
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