Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World

Author/Contributor(s):	Ferreiro, Larrie D
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	06/25/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.