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Weights and measures form an essential part of our ingrained view of the world. It is just about impossible to function effectively without some internalized system of measurement. In this volume, I outline a history of the science of measurement, and the origin of the International System of Units...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Jeffrey H. (Jeffrey Huw), 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]
Colección:IOP concise physics,
IOP (Series). Release 1.
Temas:
Weights and measures > History.
Measurement > History.
Metric system > History.
Mensuration and systems of measurement.
SCIENCE / Weights & Measures.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Measurement in antiquity
  • Man is the measure of all things
  • Seeds and cosmic forces
  • The Bronze-Age
  • The Roman Empire
  • Further reading
  • Measurement in the early modern period
  • 'Measured by the king's iron rod'
  • Measuring the world
  • Measurement in the Modern World
  • La Révolution Française
  • Defining the size of the world
  • The metric survey
  • Envy, money, terror and the metric system
  • The endgame
  • Further reading
  • Falling out of favour with the metric system
  • Creating the language that is science
  • Dividing apples with oranges to make ... something different
  • The consequences of mixing units
  • Derived units
  • A final comment on the value of a quantity
  • What was not in the original metric system?
  • Energy, work and power
  • Electricity
  • Measurement in the age of scientific certainty
  • The Convention du Mètre
  • The CGPM, the CIPM and the BIPM
  • A true universal language?
  • Even scientists cannot always agree on units
  • 20th century refinements in measurement
  • Two peoples separated by a common system of weights and measures
  • The base units of the Système international des unités
  • Metre
  • Kilogram
  • Second
  • Atomic time
  • Ampere
  • Kelvin
  • Candela
  • Mole
  • Final comments on Ionizing radiation
  • Further reading
  • For this is science
  • Units of measurement must evolve, because science evolves
  • The constants of nature
  • Re-inventing the Système international des unités : towards a Quantum-SI
  • Is the kilogram getting lighter...or heavier?
  • The 'smoking gun'
  • The how and the why of redefinition
  • The devil is in the detail
  • 'Who will explain the explanations?'
  • Further reading
  • Dialects of the single language of science
  • Final thoughts on the evolution of units of measurement.

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