The Measure of All Things: The Seven-year Odyssey that Transformed the World by Ken Alder

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-year Odyssey that Transformed the World

Ken Alder

466 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS tells the story of how science, revolutionary politics, and the dream of a new economy converged to produce both the metric system and the first struggle over globalization. Amidst the scientific fervor of the Revolution ...

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