Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures Volume 2 /

• 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, 57
• Subjects: History.; Civilization-History.; Economic history.; Finance-History.; History of Science.; Cultural History.; Economic History.; Financial History.

This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since t...