World in the balance : the historic wuest for an absolute system of measurement /
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TextPublication details: WW Norton & Company 2012Description: 317 pagesSubject(s): LOC classification: - GC QC 83 .C74 2012
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How much? How many? How far? 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 enlightening, always enjoyable look at how this international system evolved.
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