Robert P. Crease

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

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The epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement.Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. This network has been called a greater invention than the steam engine, comparable only to the development of the printing press.Robert P. Crease traces the evolution of this international system from the use of flutes to measure distance in the dynasties of ancient China and figurines to weigh gold in West Africa to the creation of the French metric and British imperial systems. The former prevailed, with the United States one of three holdout nations.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-08204-3
EAN: 9780393082043
Produktnummer: 34246177
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'096 KB
Abbildungen: 35 black-and-white illustrations

Über den Autor

Robert P. Crease is the chairman of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University and the author of several books on science, including The Quantum Moment and The Great Equations. He lives in New York City.