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Nature 412, 683 (16 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35089149
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Stranger than fiction
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The tale of the epic voyage made to establish the metric system is an intriguing and exciting one.
Who thinks about science during a vacation on the Balearic Islands? Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera are holiday destinations par excellence, not places where famous scientists of the past lived and worked, or where great experiments were carried out.
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