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Smoot's Ear : The Measure of Humanity /
A brief history of measures and measuring systems and what they reveal about human affairs 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. Tavernor urges us to look bey...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Smoot's Ear
- Introduction: Measure and Meaning
- 1. Body and Measure
- 2. Science and Measure
- 3. Defining the Revolutionary Metric System
- 4. The Decisive Separation
- 5. Anglo-Saxon Resistance
- 6. Measures of Pure Conception
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index