Defining and measuring nature : the make of all things /: the make of all things. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeffrey H. Williams.
• Authors: Williams, Jeffrey H (Jeffrey Huw), 1956-
• Contents: Forward Biography of author Introduction 1 Measurement in Antiquity 2 Measurement in the Early Modern Period 3 Measurement in the Modern World (I) 4 Measurement in the Modern World (II) 5 Creating the language that is science 6 What was not in the original Metric System 7 Measurement in the age of scientific certainty 8 A true universal language 9 Twentieth Century confusions and refinements in measurement 10 The birth of the Quantum International System of Units 11 The base units of the International System of Units (I) 12 The base units of the International System of Units (II) 13 The basis of the Quantum-SI 14 For this is science
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Bristol : IOP Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 530.8; Measurement; Measurement -- History; Metric system
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780750331432; 9780750331425
• Related ISBNs: 9780750331418
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.