Providing current and historical units from around the world, this book supplies alphabetically arranged conversion tables for more than 10, units of measurement…. For archaeologists, historians, mathematicians, and scientists in any field. Summing Up: Essential. All collections. Turner, Choice, November Skip to main content Skip to table of contents.
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Weights and Measures Abolished. Berriman , Historical Metrology Author : Harry S. The essence of the work is an alphabetically ordered, comprehensive list of measurement nomenclature, units and scales. It provides an understanding of almost all quantitative expressions observed in all imaginable situations, including spelling variants and the abbreviations and symbols for units, and various acronyms used in metrology.
It will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic. Jan Gyllenbok was born in Lund, Sweden , and graduated in with a B.
Gyllenbok has over 30 years of experience of leading organizations, management teams, boards and task forces. He has been a board member and chairman of a wide range of non-profit organizations, and board member of both private and state companies.
He has in recent years produced a diversity of specialist books and articles, mainly in technology and management. His interest in metrology began in his early teens, when he came across an article about various ancient measurement systems in a reference book. As the great importance of these measurement systems in different cultures through the millennia became obvious to him, he began to compare and compile information about different systems of measurement.
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