A Brief History of the Metric System From Revolutionary France to the Constant-Based SI /
This book succinctly traces the history of the metric system from early modern proposals of decimal measures, to the birth of the system in Revolutionary France, through its formal international adoption under the supervision of an international General Committee of Weights and Measures (CGPM), to i...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс eКнига |
| Язык: | английский |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| Редактирование: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Серии: | History of Chemistry
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| Online-ссылка: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28436-6 |
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Оглавление:
- Introduction: Decimal Ideas before Revolutionary France
- Reform of Weights and Measures in Revolutionary France
- Metrication in France and Beyond: the Meter Goes International
- The Système International d’Unités (SI) of 1960
- Changes in the SI from its Introduction (1960) to the Explicit-Constant Revision (2019)
- The Metric System and the United States.