Measure of All Things The Story of Man and Measurement

"Ever wonder what a cubit really is? How much is in a hoghead? How many rods are in an acre? Or the difference between a light year and a parse?" "Ever wonder where all these terms and formats came from, who uses them and in what context? Well, wonder no more." "A Measure of All things is a look at the way things concrete and theoretical are and have been measured from the earliest times to the modern day. Ranging from the history of measurement systems to the different classes of measurements, A Measure of All Things covers the origins of the various units of measurement, the ways in which they developed and changed over time, and the many connections between them."--BOOK JACKET.Whitelaw, Ian is the author of 'Measure of All Things The Story of Man and Measurement', published 2007 under ISBN 9780312370268 and ISBN 0312370261.