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Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. A series of bronze medallions dots the streets of Paris in a pattern that ...

Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth by Paul Murdin is an adventure story of the Paris Meridian and the scientists who worked through revolution, war, ...

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 ...