Smoot's Ear
Subtitle: The Measure of Humanity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 24, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780300124927
Subjects: Engineering measurement & calibration; History of ideas, intellectual history; Popular science; Scientific standards; Art & Art Instruction; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; General; Mensuration; History / General; History & Philosophy; History; Measurement; Metrology; Standards
Description: Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.