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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

Vincent, James

Hardcover

Sports GeneralGeneral MathematicsGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $32.50

ISBN10: 1324035854
ISBN13: 9781324035855
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Nov 1 2022
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social history, James Vincent dives into its hidden world, taking readers from ancient Egypt, where measuring the annual depth of the Nile was an essential task, to the intellectual origins of the metric system in the French Revolution, and from the surprisingly animated rivalry between metric and imperial, to our current age of the quantified self. At every turn, Vincent is keenly attuned to the political consequences of measurement, exploring how it has also been used as a tool for oppression and control.

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