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Author Tavernor, Robert.

Title Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity / Robert Tavernor.

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2007]
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  530.809 TAVERNOR    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-235) and index.
Contents Introduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception.
Subject Measurement -- History.
Metrology -- History.
Measurement -- Standards.
Metric system -- History.
ISBN 9780300124927 cloth alkaline paper
0300124929 cloth alkaline paper
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