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The measure of the world : a novel / Denis Guedj ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
- Title
- The measure of the world : a novel / Denis Guedj ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
- Author
- Guedj, Denis.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2667.U3555 M4713 2001 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Goldhammer, Arthur.
- Description
- xi, 299 p. : ill.; 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.
- Uniform Title
- Mesure du monde. English
- Alternative Title
- Mesure du monde.
- Subject
- Standards of length > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- novels.
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Novels
- Romans.
- ISBN
- 0226310302 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001000488
- OCLC
- 45804721
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library