World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by Robert P. Crease

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

Robert P. Crease

317 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But achieving such a network was anything but easy, as Robert P. Crease, physicist and philosopher, demonstrates in this endlessly fascinating, always entertai...

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