Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures: Volume 1 by Jan Gyllenbok
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 691 Pages | ISBN : 3319575961 | 95.51 MB
This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc. It concludes with an exhaustive list of references.