Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures : Their SI Equivalences and Origins /
Mankind has a fascination with measurement. Down the centuries we have produced a plethora of incompatible and duplicatory systems for measuring everything from the width of an Egyptian pyramid to the concentration of radioactivity near a nuclear reactor and the value of the fine structure constant....
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