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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 and the value of the fine structure constant. With the

introduction first of the metric system and of its successor the Système

International d'Unités (SI), the scientific community has established a standard

method of measurement based on only seven core units.The ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF

SCIENTIFIC UNITS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES converts the huge variety of units from

all over the world in every period of recorded history into units of the SI.

Featuring: * An A - Z of conversion tables for over 10,000 units of

measurements. * Tables of the fundamental constants of nature with their units.

* Listings of professional societies, and national standardization bodies for

easy reference. * An extensive bibliography detailing further reading on the

multifarious aspects of measurement and its units. This huge work is simply a

"must have" for any reference library frequented by scientists of any discipline

or by those with historical interests in units of measurement such as

archaeologists. SOME PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: NEW SCIENTIST "If you tire

of flicking through piles of textbooks looking for the formulas for converting

noggins into litres or foot-pound-force per hour into megawatts, do not despair.

Chuck out the lot and buy SCIENTIFIC UNIT CONVERSION by Francois Cardarelli

which claims to contain every scientific unit ever used ... All weights,

volumes, powers, areas, field strengths - you name it, it's here. A gem for

engineers, scientists, historians, journalists ...



Table of Contents

List of Tables

1 Introduction 1

2 The International System of Units 3

3 Other Systems of Units 19

4 Conversion Tables 167

5 Fundamental Constants 771

6 Appendices 781

7 Bibliography 839



Product Details



* ISBN: 185233682X

* ISBN-13: 9781852336820

* Format: Paperback, 848pp

* Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC

* Pub. Date: February 2003



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