Download or read book A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland by Execution of the Laws Now in Force written by John Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland written by Lord John Swinton Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland by Execution of the Laws Now in Force written by Lord John Swinton Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal For Uniformity Of Weights And Measures In Scotland By Execution Of The Laws Now In Force written by Lord John Swinton Swinton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-forgotten pamphlet from the early nineteenth century offers a detailed plan for unifying Scotland's diverse systems of measurement. Authored by Lord John Swinton Swinton, a member of the Scottish parliament and an advocate for scientific standardization, the proposal provides a fascinating window into the history of metrology and the challenges of implementing uniform measuring systems across diverse populations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland by Execution of the Laws Now in Force written by Lord John Swinton Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland written by Lord John Swinton Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland written by Lord John Swinton Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Observations on weights and measures containing a plan for uniformity founded on a philosophical standard with observations on the last Parliamentary Report on the same subject and remarks on the weights and measures of Scotland particularly those of Glasgow etc written by Robert WALLACE (A.M., Collegiate Tutor of the University of London.) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal for Uniformity of Weights and Measures in Scotland by Execution of the Laws Now in Force with Tables of the English and Scotch Standards written by JOHN. SWINTON and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T061169 Anonymous. By John Swinton. With a half-title. Edinburgh: printed for Charles Elliot, 1779. vii, [1],144, [2]p.: ill., tables; 8°
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology Weights and Measures written by Jan Gyllenbok and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc. It concludes with an exhaustive list of references. Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The essence of the work is an alphabetically ordered, comprehensive list of measurement nomenclature, units and scales. It provides an understanding of almost all quantitative expressions observed in all imaginable situations, including spelling variants and the abbreviations and symbols for units, and various acronyms used in metrology. It will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
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Download or read book Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World written by John McCusker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Download or read book Observations on the Expediency and Practicability of Simplifying and Improving the Measures Weights and Money Used in this Country Without Materially Altering the Present Standards written by Sir Charles William Pasley and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Measure of All Things written by Ken Alder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator—a standard that would be used “for all people, for all time.” The Measure of All Things is the astonishing tale of one of history’s greatest scientific adventures. Yet behind the public triumph of the metric system lies a secret error, one that is perpetuated in every subsequent definition of the meter. As acclaimed historian and novelist Ken Alder discovered through his research, there were only two people on the planet who knew the full extent of this error: Delambre and Méchain themselves. By turns a science history, detective tale, and human drama, The Measure of All Things describes a quest that succeeded as it failed—and continues to enlighten and inspire to this day.
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