'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.'
- ROBERT MACFARLANE

'Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.'
- TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up

'Beyond Measure offers, with much intellectual flair and style, a bracing new history: how the once innocent urge to quantification took over our lives, our sense of ourselves and the world.'
- PANKAJ MISHRA

'The exact value of this book is hard to quantify. Weighty, precise and satisfyingly obsessive, it's also an absolute pleasure to read.'
- SIMON GARFIELD, bestselling author of The Timekeepers

'An epic story about humankind's relationship with the physical world. Vincent is an erudite and perceptive guide, who with energy and skill weaves history, science and reportage into an enthralling tale.'
- ALEX BELLOS

'Telling the story of metrology is not easy [but] Vincent is equal to the task . . . this book is extremely good.' -
THE TIMES

'This quirky history is inch-perfect.'
- FINANCIAL TIMES

'Gripping.'
- NEW SCIENTIST

'Worth its weight in gold . . . Enlightening.'
- OBSERVER

'Fascinating . . . an erudiite and elegant read.'
- MAIL ON SUNDAY