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Their SI Equivalences and Origins

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Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures

Their SI Equivalences and Origins

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 system and of its successor the Système International d'Unités (SI), the scientific community has established a standard method of measurement based on only seven core units. The Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures converts the huge variety of units from all over the world in every period of recorded history into units of the SI. Featuring: - An A - Z of conversion tables for over 10,000 units of measurements. - Tables of the fundamental constants of nature with their units. - Listings of professional societies, and national standardization bodies for easy reference. - An extensive bibliography detailing further reading on the multifarious aspects of measurement and its units. This huge work is simply a "must have" for any reference library frequented by scientists of any discipline or by those with historical interests in units of measurement such as archaeologists.

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Springer London
Language
English
Pages
843

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Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins
2003, Springer London
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Table of Contents

Introduction
The International System of Units
Other Systems of Units
Conversion Tables
Fundamental Constants
Appendices.

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Dewey Decimal Class
620
Library of Congress
TA1-2040, T1-995

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[electronic resource] :
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1 online resource (l, 843 p.)
Number of pages
843

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OL27036028M
Internet Archive
encyclopaediasci00card_616
ISBN 10
1447111222, 1447100034
ISBN 13
9781447111221, 9781447100034
OCLC/WorldCat
853256869

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