Measure for measure: the story of imperial, metric, and other units
"In Measure for Measure, Alex Hebra offers an engaging and instructive history of measurement systems from ancient times to the present, exploring how and why such units as the stadium, the span, and the parsec first came about. Tracing civilization's various efforts to calculate distance,...
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| Summary: | "In Measure for Measure, Alex Hebra offers an engaging and instructive history of measurement systems from ancient times to the present, exploring how and why such units as the stadium, the span, and the parsec first came about. Tracing civilization's various efforts to calculate distance, volume, mass, energy, and time, he explains how units of measurement are applied in such fields as mechanical engineering, physics, optics, and astronomy. In particular, Hebra focuses on the development of the metric system, arguing that even the United States will eventually join the worldwide metric community. Deeply informed and imaginatively told, Measure for Measure chronicles humanity's imperfect search for the perfect system with which to quantify reality."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 215 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0801870720 |
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| adam_text | MEASURE FOR MEASURE / HEBRA, ALEX : C2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
PREFACE IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII
1 BLESSING OUR COUNTINGS
UNITS AND NUMBERS 1
2 GOING TO GREAT LENGTHS 23
3 DEGREES OF SEPARATION
ANGLES AND SOLID ANGLES 35
4 THE OBVIOUS UNIT OF TIME 53
5 WEIGHTY MATTERS
OF MASS AND FORCE 61
6 GRAVIMETRIC STANDARDS 67
7 THE MATTER WITH MASS 74
8 EMPIRE OF LIGHT
LUMINOSITY AND INTENSITY 82
9 HOT STUFF
TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE, AND THERMODYNAMICS 98
10 THE MISSING LINK
ENERGY 119 11 COMPOUND UNITS
12 INVASION OF ALIENS AND NIHILISTS
13 THE INTER(GALACTIC)NET
14 UNITS, PHYSICS, AND MATHEMATICS
APPENDIX
CONVERSION TABLES
SUGGESTED READING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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