Smoot's Ear

Description:

Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.

subjects: Mensuration,  Metrology,  Standards,  Metric system,  History,  Ma©einheit,  Measurement,  Kultur,  Metrisches System,  Historia,  Metrologi,  Messung,  Metrologie,  Geschichte,  Weights and measures,  Weights and measures, history