Measure of All Things
- ISBN-10
- 5558623039
- ISBN-13
- 9785558623031
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Author
- Ken Alder
Description
In June 1792, the cosmopolitan Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre and the scrupulous Pierre-Francois-Andre Mechain set out from Paris to calculate the length of the meter. In the bestselling tradition of "Longitude and The Map that Changed the World, " Alder has written an extraordinary and riveting tale. Illustrations.
