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World in the Balance

World in the Balance

The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

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Robert P. Crease
Robert P. Crease
2011

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Really 3.5. Some (most?) of the book was top notch but there was one really meh part. Very interesting other than that section though.

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