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Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins
Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units Weights and Measures Their SI Equivalences and Origins
Author: François Cardarelli
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. With the introduction first of the metric syst...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781852336820
ISBN-10: 185233682X
Publication Date: 8/12/2004
Pages: 848
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Publisher: Springer
Book Type: Hardcover
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