Their findings were met with skepticism by the scientific community from "summary" of The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
The scientific community greeted their findings with skepticism. The two men had spent years measuring the world. They had traveled to the most remote corners of France. They had climbed mountains and crossed rivers. They had endured harsh weather and dangerous conditions. And now they claimed to have measured the world. They claimed to have determined the distance from the North Pole to the Equator. But their claims seemed too incredible to be true. The scientific community raised doubts. They questioned the accuracy of the measurements. They doubted the methods used to obtain the results. They wondered if the two men had made errors in their calculations. They could not believe that such precise measur...
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