Encyclopaedia Of Scientific Units, Weights And Measures: Their SI Equivalences And Origins
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| Originally published | 2003 |
| Authors | François Cardarelli |
| Genres | Reference Work |
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| ID | 2570124 |
About Encyclopaedia Of Scientific Units, Weights And Measures: Their SI Equivalences And Origins
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. . . .