BEYOND MEASURE: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Dives into the hidden world of measurement, taking readers from ancient Egypt, where measuring the annual depth of the Nile was an essential task, to the intellectual origins of the metric system in the French Revolution, and to our current age of the "quantified self." Illus.
Format: Paperbound
Pages: 423
Publisher: Norton
Publishing status: Current
ISBN: 9781324066149
Item #: 7956177

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