The Measure of All Things
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: September 12, 2002
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780316859899
Subjects: History of science; Popular science; Science/Mathematics
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.