Encyclopaedia
of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
of SCIENTIFIC UNITS, WEIGHTS and MEASURES.
Their SI equivalences and origins.
by
Francois CARDARELLI
SPRINGER London, New York,
Heidelberg, xxiv, 848
pages
(2005)
First edition (June 2003)
Second printing (December 2003)
Third printing (January 2005)
Fourth printing (January 2006)
Electronic version (September 2006)
ISBN
1-85233-682-X;
Hardcover.
ISBN
1-60119-016-6;
Electronic version
(Library of Congress Cataloging No. QC94.C295
2003)
With
more than 5,000 units and 35,000 conversion factors The
Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures covers the full
gamut of science, technology and medicine, and deals with US customary,
Imperial British, conventional metric, MTS, MKpS, MKSA, CGS (esu, emu
and Gaussian), FPS, IPS, atomic units (au), historic
and SI units.
The
book allows to convert the huge
variety of units from all over the
world in every period of recorded history into units of the SI.
Featuring: * An A - Z of conversion tables for over 5,000 units of
measurements. * Tables of units arranged according to the physical
quantities (e.g., mass, length, area, volume, density, viscosity,
etc.). * Tables of mathematical and fundamental constants. *
Listings of professional societies, and national standardization bodies
for easy reference. * An extensive bibliography detailing further
reading on the multifarious aspects of measurement and its units.
This
huge work is simply a "must
have" for any reference library
frequented by scientists, engineers, and students of any discipline or
by those with historical interests in units of measurement such as
historians and archaeologists.
CONTENTS
[Detailed
Table of Content & List of Tables PDF file (88 KB)]:
- Introduction. [Sample
sections 1 & 2 PDF file (196 KB)]
-
The
International System of Units (SI). -
Other Systems (UK, US, FPS, MTS, MKpS, CGS, IEUS, atomic units, ancient
times systems, and obsolete national systems). [Sample
section 3 PDF file (996 KB)]
- Conversion Tables. -
Mathematical and Fundamental
Constants. - Appendices. - Bibliography.
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"Outstanding
Title!
…
Revised and expanded, this
version of Cardarelli's Scientific Unit Conversion (3rd ed., 2002) is a
comprehensive list of most scientific units, weights and measures,
conversions, and definitions. Providing current and historical units
from around the world, this book supplies alphabetically arranged
conversion tables for more than 10,000 units of
measurement….For
archaeologists, historians, mathematicians, and scientists in any
field. (D. J. Turner, Choice,
2003)
Articles
and Announcements [top]
Here
is a
comprehensive and up-to-date list of critical review articles
and brief announcements of
the
book.
2005
- Bulletin
de l'Union des Physiciens
(BUP), May 2005, No. 874 (by Bruno Velay) [PDF
file (16 KB)]
2005 - L'actualité
Chimique,
January
2005, No.
282, page 54 [PDF
file
(2.5 MB)].
2004
- Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs)
on the website
of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) [Link
to the NIST]
2004
- Ultramicroscopy, Volume
101,
Issues 2-4, pages
73-103 (by Peter
W. Hawkes) [PDF
file (316 KB)].
2004 -
Metric Today,
January-February 2004, pages 3-4 (by Don Hilger) [PDF
file (6.1 MB)].
2003 - Physics
Today,
November 2003,
Volume 56, page 66 [Link
to
Physics Today].
2003 - Chemical
Engineering, September
2003, page
12 [PDF
file
(2.7 MB)].
2003
- Choice's
Magazine, (by
D. J. Turner) [PDF
file (84
KB)].
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