The Measure of All Things - Ken Alder
The Seven-year Odyssey that Transformed the World
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This volume tells the story of how science, revolutionary politics, and the dream of a new economy converged to produce both the metric system and the first struggle over globalization. Amidst the scientific fervor of the Revolution, two French scientists, Delambre and Mechain, were sent out on an expedition to measure the shape of the world and thereby establish the metre (which was to be one ten-millionth the distance from pole to equator). Their hope was that people would use the globe as the basis of me...
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2002 Uitgever: Little Brown 480 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0316859893 ISBN-13: 9780316859899Koop dit boek tweedehands
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22.5 x 14 cm, hardcover, xii, (2) 466 pages, portraits, some ill. Text in English, no dust jacket, paper browned, very good condition, see picture. Historical account of the French scientists Jean-Baptiste Delambre and Pierre Méchain, who undertook the lat...