Precise dimensions : a history of units from 1791-2018

• Tác giả: Malcolm Cooper, Jim Grozier
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0750314855
• ISBN-13: 978-0750314862
• ISBN-13: 978-0750314879
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 389.15 Systems of measurement
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings) : , illustrations (some color).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 160841
• Chủ đề: 1. Metrology--History; 2. Units of measurement--History; 3. History of science; 4. SCIENCE / History

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

Units are the foundation for all measurement of the natural world, and from which standard, our understanding develops. This book, stemming from a conference on the history of units organised by the editors, provides a detailed and discursive examination of the history of units within physics, in advance of the proposed redefinition of the SI base units at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 2018. It features contributions from leading researchers in metrology and history.