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The Measure of All Things

By Ken Alder

Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures

By Jan Gyllenbok

Historical metrology

By Algernon Edward Berriman

The Indus Age

By Gregory L. Possehl

Smoot's ear

By Robert Tavernor

A Measure of All Things

By Ian Whitelaw

An ancient bird-shaped weight system from Lan Na and Burma

By Donald Gear,Joan Gear

French weights and measures before the Revolution

By Ronald Edward Zupko

The long and the short of it

By Graeme Donald

The Missing Link Between Pythagoras and King Tut

By Richard Charette

The origins of the Old Rus' weights and monetary systems

By Omeljan Pritsak

Measure for measure

By Alex Hebra

Specifications, Tolerances and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices

By

For good measure

By Jan Todd

Scales and Weights (History of Science & Medicine)

By Bruno Kisch

Norske vægtlodder fra fjortende aarhundrede

By C. A. Holmboe

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By Robert P. Crease

The Physics of Metrology : All about Instruments

By Alex Hebra

Earth to Heaven

By Donald Gear,Joan Gear

The lost science of measuring the earth

By Robin Heath,John Michell

Numbering & Measuring in the Classical World (Greek & Latin Language)

By William Frank Richardson

Weltchronik des Messens: Universalgeschichte von Mass und Zahl, Geld und Gewicht

By Heinz-Dieter Haustein

Weights and measures in Scotland

By R. D. Connor

Weights, money and other measures used by our ancestors

By Colin R. Chapman