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Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London :
Yale University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.