World In The Balance: The Historic Quest For An Absolute System Of Measurement

World In The Balance: The Historic Quest For An Absolute System Of MeasurementMillions 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

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