Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity

Author(s)

• Tavernor, Robert

Bibliographic Information

Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity

Robert Tavernor

Yale University Press, c2007

• : cl

Note

Bibliography: p. [211]-235

Contents of Works

• Body and measure
• Science and measure
• Defining the revolutionary metric system
• The decisive separation
• Anglo-Saxon resistance
• Measures of pure conception

Details

• NCID: BA88948764
• ISBN:
  • 9780300124927
• LCCN: 2007010417
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven [Conn.] ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 249 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA465
  • DC22 : 530.809
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Measurement -- History
  • LCSH : Metrology -- History
  • LCSH : Measurement -- Standards
  • LCSH : Metric system -- History