| ISBN: | 9785558623031 |
| Publisher: | Free Press |
| Published: | 1 January, 2001 |
| Format: | Hardcover |
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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.
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