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Author Guedj, Denis.

Title The measure of the world : a novel / Denis Guedj ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2001]
©2001
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 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  GUEDJ, DENIS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-GUEDJ    Check Shelf
Description xi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary Not science fiction, but a fiction about science, this is the novelistic account of the establishment of the meter as a scientific measurement in 1799 and how a sober enterprise could turn into such a bizarre journey as to be hardly credible. 14 line drawings.
Language Translation of: Mesure du monde.
Subject Standards of length -- Fiction.
Standards of length. (OCoLC)fst01131483
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Author Goldhammer, Arthur.
Added Title Mesure du monde. English
ISBN 0226310302 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226310305 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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