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100 1 $aTavernor, Robert.
245 10 $aSmoot's ear :$bthe measure of humanity /$cRobert Tavernor.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] ;$aLondon :$bYale University Press,$c℗♭2007.
300 $axvi, 249 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception.
520 8 $aMeasures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.
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