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

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

Ken Alder

448 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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In this "entirely enthralling and beautifully written book" (Simon Winchester), Alder tells the story of how science, revolutionary politics, and the dream of a new economy converged to produce the world's common language of measurement--the metri...

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