The Measure Of All Things The Seven Year Odyssey That Transformed The World
Author: Ken Alder
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: 39.95 NZD
: 9780316859899
: Little Brown
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: 01 May 2002
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: Ken Alder
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: hardback with dustjacket
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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.