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 entertaining look at just how
this international system evolved. From the link between musical
pitch and distance in the dynasties of ancient China and the use of
figurines to measure gold in West Africa to the creation of the
French metric and British imperial systems, Crease takes readers
along on one of history’s greatest philosophical and scientific
adventures.
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