Author : William Hallock
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ISBN 13 : 9781332174898
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (748 download)
Book Synopsis Outlines of the Evolution of Weights and Measures and the Metric System (Classic Reprint) by : William Hallock
Download or read book Outlines of the Evolution of Weights and Measures and the Metric System (Classic Reprint) written by William Hallock and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outlines of the Evolution of Weights and Measures and the Metric System In the following pages it has been the aim of the authors to present in simple and non-technical language, so far as possible, a comprehensive view of the evolution of the science of metrology as it is now understood. Inasmuch as the introduction of the Metric System into the United States and Great Britain is a topic of more or less general interest at the present time, it has seemed that a work designed both for the student of science and for the general reader, in which this system is discussed in its relation to other systems of weights and measures past and present, would fill a certain need. While there are many works on metrology that treat at considerable length the historic and scientific sides of the subject, as well as the economic and archaeological questions involved, and a large number of books and pamphlets dealing with the teaching of the Metric System, besides those supplying tables and formulas for converting from one system to the other, yet there is apparently a distinct lack of works, which in small compass discuss the subject comprehensively from its many points of view. Indeed, the student of metrology is apt to be embarrassed by an extensive literature rather than by any deficiency in the amount of collected material, though much of the latter, to be sure, is included in various Eeports and Proceedings of learned societies and official documents rather than in single works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.