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World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780393343540
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English

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Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But achieving such a network was anything but easy, as Robert P. Crease, physicist and philosopher, demonstrates in this endlessly fascinating, always entertaining look at just how this international system evolved. From the link between musical pitch and distance in the dynasties of ancient China and the use of figurines to measure gold in West Africa to the creation of the French metric and British imperial systems, Crease takes readers along on one of historys greatest philosophical and scientific adventures.
About Robert P. Crease
Robert P. Crease is the chairman of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University and the author of several books on science, including The Quantum Moment and The Great Equations. He lives in New York City.