The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world / Ken Alder.

x, 422 p. :, 25 cm.

QB291 .A43 2002

Méchain, Pierre, -- 1744-1804., Delambre, J. B. J. -- (Jean Baptiste Joseph), -- 1749-1822., Arc measures -- History.

New York :: Free Press, 2002.

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