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A measure of importance

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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)

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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.

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  • Andrew Robinson, 2009. "A measure of importance," Nature, Nature, vol. 458(7240), pages 834-834, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:458:y:2009:i:7240:d:10.1038_458834a
    DOI: 10.1038/458834a
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