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World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Robert P. Crease

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Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. Crease traces the evolution of this international system from the use of flutes to measure distance in the dynasties of ancient China and figurines to weigh gold in West Africa to the creation of the French metric and British imperial systems.

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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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  • Title World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
  • Author Robert P. Crease
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2012-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393343540 / 0393343545
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.49 x 0.8 in (21.39 x 13.94 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Measurement - History, Weights and measures - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.81

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