World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

by Robert P. Crease

Book Overview

Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But achieving such a network was anything but easy, as Robert P. Crease, physicist and philosopher, demonstrates... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393072983
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.2" x 6.6"