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The Measure of All Things; The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

Name: The Measure of All Things; The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
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Author: Ken Alder
ISBN: 9780743216753

by Ken Alder

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9780743216753
ISBN10:
074321675X
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2002-09-24
Publisher: Free Press
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Amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world, one voyaging north to Dunkirk, the other south to Barcelona. Their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator, a standard that has since swept the planet. The Measure of All Things is the astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time.

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Ken Alder is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard.

Dramatis Personae	p. ix
Prologue	p. 1
The North-Going Astronomer	p. 11
The South-Going Astronomer	p. 39
The Metric of Revolution	p. 69
The Castle of Mont-Jouy	p. 107
A Calculating People	p. 125
Fear of France	p. 161
Convergence	p. 181
Triangulation	p. 209
The Empire of Science	p. 235
The Broken Arc	p. 263
Mechain's Mistake, Delambre's Peace	p. 291
The Metered Globe	p. 325
Epilogue: The Shape of Our World	p. 347
Note on Measures	p. 351
Note on Sources	p. 353
Notes	p. 357
Selected Bibliography	p. 397
Acknowledgments	p. 401
Index	p. 403
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