Weighing the world
Subtitle: The quest to measure the Earth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Second Edition (softback) 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Softback
Number of pages: 283
Table of contents: title: PREFACE; title: CHAPTER 1	I CANNOT BE WRONG; title: CHAPTER 2	THE TITAN KING; title: CHAPTER 3	A CALM AND GENTLE CHARACTER; title: CHAPTER 4	THE GALILEO OF FRANCE; title: CHAPTER 5	EXTREME SCIENCE; title: CHAPTER 6	ROBBERIES AND DEPREDATIONS; title: CHAPTER 7	A MAGNIFICENT MILITARY SKETCH; title: CHAPTER 8	PERSONS WELL VERSED; title: CHAPTER 9	VERY EXPERT IN HIS BUSINESS; title: CHAPTER 10	A PASSAGE WITH MY HORSE; title: CHAPTER 11	FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS; title: CHAPTER 12	A REMARKABLE HILL; title: CHAPTER 13	IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS; title: CHAPTER 14	SO GREAT A NOISE; title: CHAPTER 15	THE ATTRACTION OF MOUNTAINS; title: CHAPTER 16	THE BEST OF THE POSITION; title: CHAPTER 17	DISTINGUISHED MERIT; title: CHAPTER 18	LATE BY A WHOLE YEAR; title: CHAPTER 19	GEODETIC EXPERIMENTS; title: CHAPTER 20	I KNOW IT WILL ANSWER; title: CHAPTER 21	OFFERING VIOLENCE TO NATURE; title: CHAPTER 22	A MERITORIOUS FOREIGNER; title: CHAPTER 23	MEN WORTHY OF CONFIDENCE; title: CHAPTER 24	IRREGULARITIES WE HAVE DISCOVERED