Volume
Carlo de Carolis
The Pact of Measurement
From the cubit to the constants of nature: how humanity learned to measure the world
Contents
11 chapters- 00 Preface Why tell the story of measurement
- 01 The Body as Measure Cubits, feet and the fertile chaos of ancient measures
- 02 The Meridian and the Revolution Delambre, Méchain and the metre wrested from the Earth
- 03 Longitude and Time Harrison, the railways and the hour of the world
- 04 The Century of Standards The Metre Convention and the diplomacy of precision
- 05 Measuring the Invisible Temperature, electricity and the ohm of the transatlantic cables
- 06 Error Becomes Science Gauss, the astronomers and the birth of statistics
- 07 Matter as Standard From the last artefact to the constants of nature
- 08 Extreme Measurement Optical clocks, relativistic geodesy and the limits of the measurable
- 09 A Chronology of Measurement Dates and turning points, from the royal cubit to the redefined SI
- BIB Bibliography Sources cited and reading paths