Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 249 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0300124929
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0300143346
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0300237553
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9780300124927
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9780300143348
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9780300237559
Content:
Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe
Content:
Introduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300124927
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300124929
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300143348
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300143346
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
URL:
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