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

By Ken Alder
Narrated by: Brian Jennings
Abridged — 6 hours, 11 minutes
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By Ken Alder
Narrated by: Brian Jennings
Abridged — 6 hours, 11 minutes
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Midst the chaos of the French Revolution, two 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. The Measure of All Things is the astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time.

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