Scales and weights; a historical outline.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale studies in the history of science and medicine ; 1.Publication details: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1965.Description: xxi, 297 p. illus. 27 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 389.1
LOC classification:
  • QC83 .K5
Contents:
pt. I. Scales and weights. Introduction -- Exactness of weighing -- The metric-decimal system -- Scales -- Weights -- pt. II. Manufacture of scales and weights. Mastersigns -- Concluding remarks -- Appendices. 1. Ancient weight units -- 2. Weight standards of the world before the metric-decimal system -- 3. Weight standards of the world with gram or kilogram equivalents.
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Bibliography: p. 268-281.

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pt. I. Scales and weights. Introduction -- Exactness of weighing -- The metric-decimal system -- Scales -- Weights -- pt. II. Manufacture of scales and weights. Mastersigns -- Concluding remarks -- Appendices. 1. Ancient weight units -- 2. Weight standards of the world before the metric-decimal system -- 3. Weight standards of the world with gram or kilogram equivalents.