A measure of importance

Andrew Robinson
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Andrew Robinson: Andrew Robinson is a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB, UK. He is the author of The Story of Measurement and The Last Man Who Knew Everything, a biography of Thomas Young. ar471@cam.ac.uk

Nature, 2009, vol. 458, issue 7240, 834-834

Abstract: Astronomer François Arago of the Paris Observatory defied war, disease and death to survey the meridian running through his city — and helped define the metric system we use today, explains Andrew Robinson.

Date: 2009
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