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  1. The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World Ken Alder ““The fundamental fallacy of utopianism is to assume that everyone wants to live in the same utopia.”” How two French astronomers nearly lost...

    The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

    Ken Alder

    “The fundamental fallacy of utopianism is to assume that everyone wants to live in the same utopia.”

    How two French astronomers nearly lost their lives revolutionizing the world with the invention of the meter: