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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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"The Great Indian Arc of the Meridian, begun in 1800, was the longest measurement of the earth's surface ever to have been attempted. Its 1,600 miles of inch-perfect survey took nearly fifty years, cost more lives than most contemporary wars, and involved equations more complex than any in the precomputer age."
"Rightly hailed as "one of the most stupendous works in the history of science," it was also one of the most perilous. Through hill and jungle,...
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