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  title info:
    title: Balances
    sub title: Instruments, Manufacturers, History
  name:
    name part: Robens, Erich.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Jayaweera, Shanath Amarasiri A.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kiefer, Susanne.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 730 p. 763 illus., 359 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The book deals mainly with direct mass determination by means of a conventional balances. It covers the history of the balance from the beginnings in Egypt earlier than 3000 BC to recent developments. All balance types are described with emphasis on scientific balances. Methods of indirect mass determination, which are applied to very light objects like molecules and the basic particles of matter and celestial bodies, are included. As additional guidance, today’s manufacturers are listed and the profile of important companies is reviewed. Several hundred photographs, reproductions and drawings show instruments and their uses. This book includes commercial weighing instruments for merchandise and raw materials in workshops as well as symbolic weighing in the ancient Egyptian’s ceremony of ‘Weighing of the Heart’, the Greek fate balance, the Roman Justitia, Juno Moneta and Middle Ages scenes of the Last Judgement with Jesus or St. Michael and of modern balances. The photographs are selected from the slide-archives of the late Richard Vieweg (1896-1972) (former President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany), of the late Hans R. Jenemann (1920-1966) (former head of the Analytical Laboratory of Schott & Gen., Mainz, Germany) and of his wife Irene (1933-2008) and of Erich Robens.
  table of contents: Mass and gravity -- Weights -- Weighing -- Balances -- Balances for special applications -- Balance as symbol and art object -- Documentation and archiving -- Weighing scales manufacturers.
  note: by Erich Robens, Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera, Susanne Kiefer.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical measurements
  subject:
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Materials science
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Measurement Science and Instrumentation
  subject:
    topic: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Applied and Technical Physics
  classification: T50
  classification: 530.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642364471
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36447-1
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    record creation date: 130930
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