The Measure of All Things
Subtitle: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Publisher: Free Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780743216760
Subjects: Science; France - History - Revolution And Napoleonic Empire (1789-1815); Geodetic Surveying; History: World; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Geography; History; Metric System; History / General; (Jean Baptiste Joseph),; 1749-1822; Arc measures; Delambre, J. B. J.; Meter (Unit)
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.