Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity / Robert Tavernor.

  • Tavernor, Robert.
Date:
[2007], ©2007
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2007], ©2007.

Physical description

xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.

Contents

Introduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception.

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    History of Medicine
    ADJ /TAV
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  • 9780300124927
  • 0300124929