Review: Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (New York, 2002)

Authors

Andre Wakefield, Pitzer CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Program

History (Pitzer)

Publication Date

10-2003

Keywords

Delambre, J. B. J. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), 1749-1822, Méchain, Pierre, 1744-1804, Measurement

Abstract

Reviewed work: Ken Alder. The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World. New York: The Free Press, 2002. Pp. x+422. $27.

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Recommended Citation

Andre Wakefield. Review of Alder, Ken, The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World. Technology and Culture 44.4 (October 2003): 810-812.