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Why the metric system is based on a lie
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The Measure of All Thingsthe Seven-Year Odyssey
that Transformed the World
by Ken Alder
288pp, Little, Brown, pounds 14.99
T pounds 12.99 (plus pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 1557222
This riveting account of the origins of the metric system by Ken
Alder, an American academic, is an eye-opener. Alder shows how, far
from being a mere by-product of the French Revolution, the idea of
introducing a new, perfectly rational system of weights and measures
lay at its very heart.
In 1792, as they abolished religion and prepared to execute their
king, the leading revolutionary minds conceived a breathtaking ...
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