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008 010122s2001 ilua 000 1 eng
010 $a 2001000488
020 $a0226310302 (cloth : alk. paper)
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041 1 $aeng$hfre
050 00 $aPQ2667.U3555$bM4713 2001
082 00 $a843/.914$221
100 1 $aGuedj, Denis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89605119
240 10 $aMesure du monde.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002023854
245 14 $aThe measure of the world :$ba novel /$cDenis Guedj ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2001.
300 $axi, 299 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"On June 24, 1792, two large traveling coaches left the Tuileries, one headed to Dunkirk, the other to Barcelona. They carried the astronomers Pierre Mechain and Jean-Baptiste Delambre, who had been ordered by the French revolutionary government to survey the meridian that passes through both cities and divide it to create a natural and universal unit of measure, the meter.".
520 8 $a"The Measure of the World is the story of this mission. Denis Guedj has written a novelistic account of the measurement project that relies heavily on archival sources - a more "traditional" history could not possibly describe how a sober scientific enterprise became a journey filled with adventures and experiences so bizarre as to be hardly credible.
520 8 $aIn tumultuous revolutionary and postrevolutionary France, Mechain and Delambre were objects of suspicion as they traveled through the provinces, climbing steeples and deploying strange instruments - they were detained as spies, taken for charlatans or fleeing royalists, and arrested for debt. Their perilous labors lasted until 1799, when the meter was formally established."--BOOK JACKET.
700 1 $aGoldhammer, Arthur.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96050390
852 00 $bglx$hPQ2667.U3555$iM4713 2001