The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world / Ken...
The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world / Ken...
The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world / Ken Alder.
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New York : Free Press, c2002.
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N526.1/8
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English
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x, 422 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Free Press, c2002.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2002.
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"Yet when Ken Alder located the long-lost correspondence between the two men, along with their mission log books, he stumbled upon a two-hundred-year-old secret, and a drama worthy of the great French playwrights. The meter, it turns out, is in error. One of the two astronomers, Pierre-Francois-Andre Mechain, made contradictory measurements from Ba...
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The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey and hidden error that transformed the world / Ken Alder.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-400) and index.
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c2002.
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N526.1/8
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74Vv4DNkWJVO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv4DNkWJVO
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ISBN
074321675X
DDC
526.1
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991015359699702626
