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  title info:
    title: Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures
    sub title: Volume 1
  name:
    name part: Gyllenbok, Jan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 677 p. 22 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 1.Introduction -- 2.Systems of Units -- 3.A-Z of Metric, Scientific and Informal Measures -- 4.Time Measurements and Calendars -- 5.Ancient Systems of Weights, Measures and Currencies -- References.
  note: by Jan Gyllenbok.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Civilization-History
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Finance-History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Cultural History
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: Financial History
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Science Networks. Historical Studies, 56
  identifier: 9783319575988
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57598-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 180411
    record change date: 20191025061330.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-57598-8