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Original Articles

The Birth of the Meter

Pages 14-31 | Published online: 12 Feb 2018

For Further Reading

  • Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (Free Press, 2002).
  • Jeff Brooks and Satha Push, “The Cycloidal Pendulum,” American Mathematical Monthly 109:5 (May 2002), 463–5.
  • John L. Greenberg, The Problem of the Earth's Shape from Newton to Clairaut: The Rise of Mathematical Science in Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Fall of “Normal” Science (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
  • Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Walker, 1995).

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