Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity / Robert Tavernor.

Main entry:

Tavernor, Robert.

Title & Author:

Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity / Robert Tavernor.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.
Introduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception.

Summary:

Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780300124927 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300124929 (cl ; alk. paper)
9780300143348 (pbk.)
0300143346 (pbk.)

Subject:

Measurement History.
Metrology History.
Measurement Standards.
Metric system History.
Mesure Histoire.
Métrologie Histoire.
Mesure Normes.
Système métrique Histoire.
Measurement
Metric system
Metrology
Maßeinheit
Kultur
Geschichte
Messung
Metrologie
Metrisches System
Metrologi historia.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253273
Call No.: BIB 182995
Status: Available

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