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- Books even claiming to cover units and their interconversion are scarce and no other book does such a comprehensive job
- Puts a huge number of scientific and general unit conversions at the reader's fingertips in a user-friendly, thoroughly indexed guide
- Builds on the reputation of the popular previous editions, but beefed up with even more units and conversions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Outstanding Title! … Revised and expanded, this version of Cardarelli's Scientific Unit Conversion (3rd ed., 2002) is a comprehensive list of most scientific units, weights and measures, conversions, and definitions. Providing current and historical units from around the world, this book supplies alphabetically arranged conversion tables for more than 10,000 units of measurement….For archaeologists, historians, mathematicians, and scientists in any field. Summing Up: Essential. All collections."
(D. J. Turner, Choice, November 2003)
"All weights, volumes, powers, areas, field strengths ¿ You name it, it's here ¿ A gem for engineers, scientists, historians, journalists ¿" New Scientist
Authors and Affiliations
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Technology Dept., RIO TINTO Iron & Titanium Inc., Sorel-Tracy, Canada
François Cardarelli
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L’Haÿ-les-Roses, France
François Cardarelli
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures
Book Subtitle: Their SI Equivalences and Origins
Authors: François Cardarelli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0003-4
Publisher: Springer London
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-682-0Published: 14 July 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-1122-1Published: 07 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0003-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 848
Topics: Engineering, general, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Physics, general, Life Sciences, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Computer Science, general