Encyclopaedia Of Historical Metrology Weights And Measures

Author : Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319666916
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures written by Jan Gyllenbok and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.

Author : Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319575988
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures written by Jan Gyllenbok and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc. It concludes with an exhaustive list of references. Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The essence of the work is an alphabetically ordered, comprehensive list of measurement nomenclature, units and scales. It provides an understanding of almost all quantitative expressions observed in all imaginable situations, including spelling variants and the abbreviations and symbols for units, and various acronyms used in metrology. It will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.

Author : Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319667122
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures written by Jan Gyllenbok and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the second part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (J-Z). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.

Author : François Cardarelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447100034
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures written by François Cardarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind has a fascination with measurement. Down the centuries we have produced a plethora of incompatible and duplicatory systems for measuring everything from the width of an Egyptian pyramid to the concentration of radioactivity near a nuclear reactor and the value of the fine structure constant. With the introduction first of the metric system and of its successor the Système International d'Unités (SI), the scientific community has established a standard method of measurement based on only seven core units. The Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures converts the huge variety of units from all over the world in every period of recorded history into units of the SI. Featuring: - An A - Z of conversion tables for over 10,000 units of measurements. - Tables of the fundamental constants of nature with their units. - Listings of professional societies, and national standardization bodies for easy reference. - An extensive bibliography detailing further reading on the multifarious aspects of measurement and its units. This huge work is simply a "must have" for any reference library frequented by scientists of any discipline or by those with historical interests in units of measurement such as archaeologists.

Author : Algernon Edward Berriman
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780837124247
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Metrology written by Algernon Edward Berriman and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1953 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. M. Dowd
Publisher : Begell House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781567001419
Total Pages : 1500 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Weights and Measure written by D. M. Dowd and published by Begell House Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopaedia endeavors to cover all aspects of weights and measures thoroughly andaccurately -what they are, what they do, where they come from, and how they relate to each other. If you are involved with measurement in the commercial, scientific, or technical fields, within or without the U.S.A., you will find information ere which is indispensable, interesting, or difficult to source. Should your interest be historical, sources and relationships across stretches of space and time are explored. The work is designed to help with at least two common problems: 1) Oftendifferent reference works give different values for some measures, and the reasons for this, including progress or mere error, are explained. 2) Obsolete or incorrect usages still abound in the literature and are the bane of students - these ar all investigated and the correct equivalents given. So, if you need to know the current proper measure used for the right purpose with the agreed value, or, one the other hand when and where a measure was used, how it varied over time and how it spread, then this one volume should satisfy your needs. Never before has the attempt been made to collate everything there is to know about the world's weights and measures between two covers. Each entry includes a glossary in many languages of the world.

Author : Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020313820
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weights, Measures, and Money, of All Nations written by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic reference work detailing the systems of measurement and currency used in countries around the world, with historical and cultural context. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Total Pages : 144 pages
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Author : Francis Lyall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000553760
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Technology, Sovereignty and International Law written by Francis Lyall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dogma of the sovereignty of the state, deriving from the Peace of Westphalia, underpins much of the modern-day international system. However, developments in recent technology have led this ideology to depart from reality. Viewing state sovereignty through the prism of public international law, the book will begin with an overview of the settlement of Westphalia, how it has influenced international documents ever since, and how the advantages of centralised decisions came to be perceived. By surveying the Law of the Sea, Maritime Law, Air and Aviation, Telecommunications, Postal Services, Space Law and Mensuration, the book demonstrates how, in each, the interplay between state sovereignty and developing technologies have caused significant legal change. Some changes, Lyall argues, such as international measures of time and geography, have been born out of convenience, facilitated by technology developed for the purpose. Other areas of change developed out of a desire to reconcile conflicts or harmonise necessary state regulation. The book analyses the reasons behind these changes and discusses the ongoing attempts to balance state equality, measures adopted by new institutions to secure comprehensive representation. It ends by looking to the future of state sovereignty in an increasingly globalised world. The book is of use to any student or scholar interested in policy making, international law and international affairs, both legal and scientific, as well as those looking at legal administrative issues and government officiation.

Author : Jacopo Parravicini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031554523
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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