The Measure of All Things The Seven-year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World – Ken Alder Goedkoop

“The truth belongs to everyone, but error is ours alone.” “– The Measure of All Things” Amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid 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, a standard that has since swept the planet. “The Measure of All Things” is the astonishing story of one of history’s…