Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Simon Schaffer, Sophie Waring
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009602525)
In the first full-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians analyse one of Georgian Britains key scientific institutions. Utilizing the Boards archives, they shed light on state sponsorship of technological innov...Loe edasi...
In the first full-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians analyse one of Georgian Britains key scientific institutions. Utilizing the Boards archives, they shed light on state sponsorship of technological innova...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226836331)
How do we measure economic productivity if not by GDP? Traditional economic methods, including GDP, tell us that productivity has slowed dramatically in the US and other developed economies over the last two decades. This has led to calls for all ma...Loe edasi...
The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world “Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are.”—Kirkus Reviews...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive, iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his interests and activity. Suitable for students and scholars in the history of philosophy, science...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226831831)
What do we mean when we talk about sea level? How and why did people begin to measure it? With Wilko Graf von Hardenberg as our guide, we follow these questions and more to the muddy littoral spaces of Venice and Amsterdam, the coasts of the Baltic...Loe edasi...
During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production (ranging from architecture to tailoring), warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell. This Element delves into the applica...Loe edasi...
This book succinctly traces the history of the metric system from early modern proposals of decimal measures, to the birth of the system in Revolutionary France, through its formal international adoption under the supervision of an international G...Loe edasi...
Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity. Thales is most commonly associated with the clai...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009123112)
When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the worlds highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226820002)
An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements. Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neig...Loe edasi...
Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before.Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group...Loe edasi...
This unique book provides an accessible introduction to both the scientific background and the key people involved in the discovery and use of radiation and radioactivity. It begins by providing a short history of radiation exposures and radiation...Loe edasi...
This unique book provides an accessible introduction to both the scientific background and the key people involved in the discovery and use of radiation and radioactivity. It begins by providing a short history of radiation exposures and radiation...Loe edasi...
This book delivers a comprehensive overview of units of measurement. Beginning with a historical look at metrology in Ancient India, the book explains fundamental concepts in metrology such as basic, derived and dimensionless quantities, an...Loe edasi...
In this Element, I first introduce intelligence in terms of historical definitions. I show that intelligence, as conceived even by the originators of the first intelligence tests, Alfred Binet and David Wechsler, is a much broader construct than just...Loe edasi...
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the units in physics and engineering and the international system of units. It serves as a useful reference to researchers and engineers. This book delivers a comprehensive overvie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Mar-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226612492)
Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, m...Loe edasi...
The chief economist for the World Banks Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article Africas Statistical Tragedy. Is there a statistical trage...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Dec-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836244721)
This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body the Board of Longitude established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea....Loe edasi...
Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Simon Schaffer, Sophie Waring
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009602525)
In the first full-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians analyse one of Georgian Britains key scientific institutions. Utilizing the Boards archives, they shed light on state sponsorship of technological innov...Loe edasi...
In the first full-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians analyse one of Georgian Britains key scientific institutions. Utilizing the Boards archives, they shed light on state sponsorship of technological innova...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226836331)
How do we measure economic productivity if not by GDP? Traditional economic methods, including GDP, tell us that productivity has slowed dramatically in the US and other developed economies over the last two decades. This has led to calls for all ma...Loe edasi...
The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world “Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are.”—Kirkus Reviews...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive, iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his interests and activity. Suitable for students and scholars in the history of philosophy, science...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226831831)
What do we mean when we talk about sea level? How and why did people begin to measure it? With Wilko Graf von Hardenberg as our guide, we follow these questions and more to the muddy littoral spaces of Venice and Amsterdam, the coasts of the Baltic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Aug-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300266276)
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The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world “Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are.”—Kirkus Reviews...Loe edasi...
During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production (ranging from architecture to tailoring), warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell. This Element delves into the applica...Loe edasi...
This book succinctly traces the history of the metric system from early modern proposals of decimal measures, to the birth of the system in Revolutionary France, through its formal international adoption under the supervision of an international G...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781802070538)
Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water,...Loe edasi...
A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day. From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sen...Loe edasi...
Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity. Thales is most commonly associated with the clai...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009123112)
When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the worlds highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226820002)
An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements. Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neig...Loe edasi...
Provides understanding on how management accounting and performance measurement systems are transforming locally and globally in order to reapproper opportunities. The book also sheds light on the usage of data analytics by accountants to support va...Loe edasi...
Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before.Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group...Loe edasi...
This unique book provides an accessible introduction to both the scientific background and the key people involved in the discovery and use of radiation and radioactivity. It begins by providing a short history of radiation exposures and radiation...Loe edasi...
