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Free Press, September 2003
Trade Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0743216768
ISBN-13: 9780743216760
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Table of Contents
Contents
Dramatis Personae
Prologue
Chapter One: The North-Going Astronomer
Chapter Two: The South-Going Astronomer
Chapter Three: The Metric of Revolution
Chapter Four: The Castle of Mont-Jouy
Chapter Five: A Calculating People
Chapter Six: Fear of France
Chapter Seven: Convergence
Chapter Eight: Triangulation
Chapter Nine: The Empire of Science
Chapter Ten: The Broken Arc
Chapter Eleven: Méchain's Mistake, Delambre's Peace
Chapter Twelve: The Metered Globe
Epilogue: The Shape of Our World
Note on Measures
Note on Sources
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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