Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures Volume 1 /

• Main Author: Gyllenbok, Jan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, 56
• Subjects: History.; Civilization-History.; Economic history.; Finance-History.; History of Science.; Cultural History.; Economic History.; Financial History.

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 ref...

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.