Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their Si ... - Fran Ois Cardarelli - Google Books

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Mankind has a fascination with measurement. Down the centuries we have produced a plethora of incompatible and duplicatory systems for measuring everything from the width of an Egyptian pyramid to the concentration of radioactivity near a nuclear reactor…