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Alder, Ken.

The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey that transformed the world / Ken Alder. - London : Abacus, 2004. - xii, 466p.

Previously published: Great Britain : Little, Brown, 2002.

ISBN: 0349115079

Subjects--Personal Names:
Delambre, J. B. J. 1749-1822.
Méchain, Pierre, 1744-1804.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Metric system--History.
Astronomers--Biography.--France