Measure of the Earth |
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| Author:
| Ferreiro, Larrie D. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-283-09416-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | Basic Books
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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An award-winning historian of science reveals the riveting and little-known story of a team of eighteenth-century European scientists that journeyed to South America to calculate the shape of the earth.
An award-winning historian of science reveals the riveting and little-known story of a team of eighteenth-century European scientists that journeyed to South America to calculate the shape of the earth.