Name: Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures: Volume 1 (en Inglés)
Price: 505.05 PEN
Availability: InStock
Author: Gyllenbok, Jan
ISBN: 9783030096243

portada Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures: Volume 1 (en Inglés)

Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures: Volume 1 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jan Gyllenbok

Editorial

Birkhauser

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

677

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9783030096243

Categorías

Historia de la economía
Historia social y cultural
Historia de la ciencia

Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures: Volume 1 (en Inglés)

Jan Gyllenbok (Autor) · Birkhauser · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 16 a 21 días háb.

S/ 1.122,32S/ 505,05

-55%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan más de 100 unidades

S/ 505,05

Llega entre el 07 Ago y el 17 Ago a CERCADO DE LIMA, Lima. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures: Volume 1 (en Inglés)"

This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc. It concludes with an exhaustive list of references.Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world.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.