Verfasst von:	Crease, Robert P.
Titel:	World in the balance
Titelzusatz:	the historic quest for an absolute system of measurement
Verf.angabe:	Robert P. Crease
Ausgabe:	1. ed.
Verlagsort:	New York, NY [u.a.]
Verlag:	Norton
E-Jahr:	2011
Jahr:	© 2011
Umfang:	317 S.
Illustrationen:	Ill., graph. Darst.
Format:	25 cm
Inhalt:	Vitruvian man -- Ancient China : feet and flutes -- West Africa : gold weights -- France : "realities of life and labor" -- Halting steps toward universality -- "One of the greatest triumphs of modern civilization" -- Metrophilia and metrophobia -- Surely you're joking, Mr. Duchamp! -- Dreams of a final standard -- Universal system : the Si -- The modern metroscape -- Au revoir, kilogram.
ISBN:	978-0-393-07298-3
Abstract:	Offers the story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement
	Offers the story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement
URL:	Verlag: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35831
	Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-17428
Schlagwörter:	(s)Metrologie    / (s)Messwesen    / (s)Maßeinheit    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	UB 2380
	UB 2490
	NU 2000
Sach-SW:	Measurement
K10plus-PPN:	667116591