Addresses the myriad units of measurement that have arisen through the ages, from weights used by ancient cultures to the scientific units of the modern world
Comprised from more than 4 500 published papers and books, all of which are reported in the bibliography
Part III of the author's encyclopedia of historical metrology
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Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
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Springer International Publishing
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155
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IX, 917 p. 155 illus.
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 50 mm
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ISBN-13
978-3-030-09779-0 (9783030097790)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-66712-6
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jan Gyllenbok was born in Lund, Sweden (1963), and graduated in 1990 with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Lund University. Gyllenbok has over 30 years of experience of leading organizations, management teams, boards and task forces. He has been a board member and chairman of a wide range of non-profit organizations, and board member of both private and state companies. He has in recent years produced a diversity of specialist books and articles, mainly in technology and management. His interest in metrology began in his early teens, when he came across an article about various ancient measurement systems in a reference book. As the great importance of these measurement systems in different cultures through the millennia became obvious to him, he began to compare and compile information about different systems of measurement. This demanding project, which spanned over forty years, is reported in the three volumes of "Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures."
