Smoot's ear
Subtitle: the measure of humanity
By: Robert Tavernor.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300124927
Subjects: Mensuration -- History; Metrology -- History; Mensuration -- Standards; Metric system -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : measure and meaning; title: Body and measure; title: Science and measure; title: Defining the revolutionary metric system; title: Decisive separation; title: Anglo-Saxon resistance; title: Measures of pure conception.