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Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tavernor, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Measurement > History.
Metrology > History.
Measurement > Standards.
Metric system > History.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 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.