François Cardarelli

eBook, PDF

Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures (eBook, PDF)

Their SI Equivalences and Origins

Übersetzer: Shields, M. J.

Beschreibung

This book will sell because everything that people do is measured in units of one type or another. Scientists use them all the time but they are also important in the study of history, geography and other academic disciplines as well as in the daily life of the more general reader.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 14.28MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 848
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447100034
• Artikelnr.: 44052357

Rezensionen

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