Measure of All Things
Publisher: Free Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9785558623031
Subjects: History; Metric System; World - General; Science
First sentence: In June 1792-in the dying days of the French monarchy, as the world began to revolve around a new promise of Revolutionary equality-two astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary quest.