Author:
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171549573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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Author:
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171549573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171549573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Measure of All Things
Author: Ken Alder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074324902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator—a standard that would be used “for all people, for all time.” The Measure of All Things is the astonishing tale of one of history’s greatest scientific adventures. Yet behind the public triumph of the metric system lies a secret error, one that is perpetuated in every subsequent definition of the meter. As acclaimed historian and novelist Ken Alder discovered through his research, there were only two people on the planet who knew the full extent of this error: Delambre and Méchain themselves. By turns a science history, detective tale, and human drama, The Measure of All Things describes a quest that succeeded as it failed—and continues to enlighten and inspire to this day.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074324902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator—a standard that would be used “for all people, for all time.” The Measure of All Things is the astonishing tale of one of history’s greatest scientific adventures. Yet behind the public triumph of the metric system lies a secret error, one that is perpetuated in every subsequent definition of the meter. As acclaimed historian and novelist Ken Alder discovered through his research, there were only two people on the planet who knew the full extent of this error: Delambre and Méchain themselves. By turns a science history, detective tale, and human drama, The Measure of All Things describes a quest that succeeded as it failed—and continues to enlighten and inspire to this day.
Elementary Geography
Author: James Monteith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Earthtrek Geography 5
Author: Rita Fernandez
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House
ISBN: 9325967529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Earthtrek, a NEW series in Geography for classes 3-8, based on the latest ICSE syllabus, aims at introducing and developing concepts of Geography in a captivating style. The books attempt to create curiosity and interest in the mind of the learners through interesting activities and map work.
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House
ISBN: 9325967529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Earthtrek, a NEW series in Geography for classes 3-8, based on the latest ICSE syllabus, aims at introducing and developing concepts of Geography in a captivating style. The books attempt to create curiosity and interest in the mind of the learners through interesting activities and map work.
The Lure of Unknown Lands
Author: Frederick George Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326191141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326191141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth
Author: Michael Rand Hoare
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351883313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit, their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, and reputations of the living and the dead stood to be elevated or destroyed. In particular the two expeditions hoped to prove the correctness of Isaac Newton's prediction that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but flattened at the poles. In this study, the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy is for the first time comprehensively explored in all its several dimensions. It shows how a largely neglected episode of European science, that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents an almost unique combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method. It also details the suffering of the two teams of scientists in very different extremes of climate, whose sacrifices for the sake of knowledge rather than colonial gain, caught the imagination of the literary world of the time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351883313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit, their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, and reputations of the living and the dead stood to be elevated or destroyed. In particular the two expeditions hoped to prove the correctness of Isaac Newton's prediction that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but flattened at the poles. In this study, the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy is for the first time comprehensively explored in all its several dimensions. It shows how a largely neglected episode of European science, that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents an almost unique combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method. It also details the suffering of the two teams of scientists in very different extremes of climate, whose sacrifices for the sake of knowledge rather than colonial gain, caught the imagination of the literary world of the time.
A New Primary Geography
Author: David M. Warren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Complete Geography
Author: Alex Everett Frye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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