World in the Balance (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2012-11-16
Förlag
WW Norton & Co
Dimensioner
214 x 139 x 20 mm
Vikt
259 g
ISBN
9780393343540

World in the Balance

The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

av Robert P Crease, Robert P Crease, Robert P Crease
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-11-16
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Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But achieving such a network was anything but easy, as Robert P. Crease, physicist and philosopher, demonstrates in this endlessly fascinating, always entertaining look at just how this international system evolved. From the link between musical pitch and distance in the dynasties of ancient China and the use of figurines to measure gold in West Africa to the creation of the French metric and British imperial systems, Crease takes readers along on one of history's greatest philosophical and scientific adventures.
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Robert P. Crease is the chairman of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University and the author of several books on science, including The Quantum Moment and The Great Equations. He lives in New York City.

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