[PDF.98eu] The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

[PDF.wo57] The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

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 | #830556 in Books |  2002-09-24 |  2002-09-24 | Format: Deckle Edge | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.19 x6.25l, | File type: PDF | 432 pages

 | Ken Alder | science | history

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| It helps if you're a surveyor or geodesist, but good for everyone|By Concerned Reader|I greatly enjoyed this book. While there have been complaints about a lack of example calculations and discussion of details of how it was done, there is enough in here for someone familiar with this type of work to figure it out. And if you don't know this material, you may not want to be fac|From Publishers Weekly|Alder delivers a triple whammy with this elegant history of technology, acute cultural chronicle and riveting intellectual adventure built around Delambre's and Mechain's famed meridian expedition of 1792-1799 to calculate the length of th

"The truth belongs to everyone, but error is ours alone."

-- The Measure of All Things

Amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world, one voyaging north to Dunkirk, the other south to Barcelona. Their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator, a standard that has since swept the plane...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World   |  Ken Alder.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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