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Fandel, Jennifer

The Metric System

48 pp. | Creative Education | September, 2006 | Library ISBN 1-58341-430-4 $31.35
(3) 4-6 What in the World? series. For this crosscultural series, Fandel demonstrates both the egalitarianism that spurred the metric system's completion in 1799 and the painstaking surveys that astronomers Delambre and Méchain did. Events--both related and unrelated--in countries including the U.S., Benin, Japan, and Russia appear in both the text (though the small type may be troublesome to some) and compelling art reproductions. Timeline. Ind.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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