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The revolutionary adventures of two scientists who inaugurated the metric system.Winner of the 2003 Dingle Prize for the best book on the history of science.
The Measure Of All Things
The Seven Year Odyssey That Transformed the World
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480 pages
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8 August 2004
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Summary
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS tells the story of how science, revolutionary politics, and the dream of a new economy converged to produce both the metric system and the first struggle over globalization.
Amidst the scientific fervor of the Revolution two French scientists, Delambre and Mechain, were sent out on an expedition to measure the shape of the world and thereby establish the metre (which was to be one ten-millionth the distance from pole to equator). Their hope was that people w…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349115078 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349115079 |
| Author: | Ken Alder |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 32mm |
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riveting account of the origins of the metric system… an eye-opener
all the pace and plot of a historical adventure novel, as though Longitude had been crossed with A Tale of Two Cities, with a measure of Don Quixote thrown in - The Sunday TIMES
riveting account of the origins of the metric system… an eye-opener - The DAILY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Ken Alder
Ken Alder has a PhD from Harvard in History of Science as well as a Physics degree. In 1998 he won the Dexter Prize for the best book on the history of technology.
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