Measurement references
References for: The history of measurement
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Books:
- K Alder, The measure of all things (London, 2002).
- R D Connor, The weights and measures of England (London, 1987).
- A Favre, Les origines du système métrique (Paris, 1931).
- H A Klein, The science of measurement : A historical survey (New York, 1988).
- R Zupko, Revolution in measurement : western European weights and measures since the age of science (Philadelphia, 1990).
Papers:
- E F Cox, The metric system : A quarter-century of acceptance, 1831-1876, Osiris 13 (1959), 358-379.
- M Crosland, The Congress on definitive metric standards, 1798-1799 : The first international scientific conference?, Isis 60 (1969), 226-309.
- W Kaunzner, Über eine Entwicklung in der Dimensionsrechnung, Österreich. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Natur. Kl. Denkschr. 116 (9) (1979), 144-165.
- H R Jenemann, Zur Geschichte der Substitutionswägung und der Substitutionswaage, Technikgeschichte 49 (2) (1982), 89-131; 176.
- L L Kulvecas, Two dates in the history of the development of the metric system of measures (Russian), in Problems in the history of mathematics and mechanics (Kiev, 1977), 109-115; 133.
- P Redondi, The French Revolution and the history of science (Russian), Priroda (7) (1989), 82-91.
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