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Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. Marcia…
Chronicles the history of measurement systems and discusses why America has never adopted the metric system.
Explains why the United States, the first country to adopt a decimal currency, is the only major nation not to use the metric system, and places the decision in the context of the growth of the metric system and the use of standard time.
Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. Marcia…
The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies in a dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estima…
This handbook provides a practical collection of reference data on a variety of physical measurements for use in the evaluation of children and adults with dysmorphic features and/or structural anomalies. Each chapter concentrates on a specific body area.
This volume offers a comprehensive presentation of 5,000 years of measures and measuring. The sources cited stem from a wide variety of origins - e.g. Indogermanic, Anglo-saxon, Romanic, Babylonian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Greek, Roman, Arabic, Jewish.
Biographical note: Der Autor lehrte Wirtschaftswissenschaften; er forschte und publizierte auf den Gebieten Qualitätssicherung, Messung und Bewertung, Prognoseverfahren, flexible Automatisierung und Innovationstheorie. Seine Schriften wurden vielfach übersetzt.
Messen ist immer schon Macht und Menetekel zugleich, seit im alten Ägypten der Lauf der Gestirne über lange Zeiträume beobachtet, als Aktion der Götterwelt interpretiert und mit Hilfe der Vorhersage der alljährlichen Nilüberschwemmung der Arbeits- und Lebensrhythmus des Volkes b…
"Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China's early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor's predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the th…
"Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China's early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor's predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the th…
