Title: Smoot's ear
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Mensuration, Metrology, Standards, Metric system, History, Ma©einheit, Measurement, Kultur, Metrisches System, Historia, Metrologi, Messung, Metrologie, Geschichte, Weights and measures, Weights and measures, history
LC classification: QA465 .T38 2007