[PDF] Historical Metrology A New Analysis Of The Archaeological And The Historical Evidence Relating To Weights And Measures eBook

Author : Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319666916

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This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.

Author : Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319667122

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This third volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the second part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (J-Z). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.

Author : Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319575988

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This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc. It concludes with an exhaustive list of references. Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The essence of the work is an alphabetically ordered, comprehensive list of measurement nomenclature, units and scales. It provides an understanding of almost all quantitative expressions observed in all imaginable situations, including spelling variants and the abbreviations and symbols for units, and various acronyms used in metrology. It will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.

Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4319 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1000144364

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The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.

Author : O. A. Dilke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520060722

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Describes the systems of mathematics and measurement used in the ancient world and discusses the influence of ancient mathematics on later science