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World in the Balance The Historic Quest for a Universal System of Measurement

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ISBN-10: 0393072983

ISBN-13: 9780393072983

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert P. Crease

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/24/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Introduction: The Noonday Cannon
Vitruvian Man
Ancient China: Feet and Flutes
West Africa: Gold Weights
France: "Realities of Life and Labor"
Halting Steps Toward Universality
"One of the Greatest Triumphs of Modern Civilization"
Metrophilia and Metrophobia
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Duchamp!
Dreams of a Final Standard
Universal System: The SI
The Modern Metroscape
Au Revoir, Kilogram
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index