![]() ![]() But it felt rather glumly factual to me all the way through. and it is an interesting subject: how we define measurements and agree them and pick our starting points, the development of measuring tools, how the act of measuring changes the way we look at things. The writing was pretty heavy going for the most part except for some outbreaks of journalese: it just felt fairly bogged down in the subject. ![]() ![]() Regrettably, this one fell into the last category for me. These, in my experience, tend to divide into "sounds boring, is absolutely fascinating" ( The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age), "sounds boring, kind of is" ( An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!), and the most depressing, "sounds fascinating, is not" ( What's in a Surname?: A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker). This is in that subgenre of non fiction that takes a deep dive into a specific subject. ![]()
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