LEADER 01459nam a2200361 i 4500 001 991002036529707536 008 130423s2009 njua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a9780691122045 035 $ab14110702-39ule_inst 040 $aDip.to Matematica e Fisica - Sez. Matematica$beng 082 00$a577.18$222 084 $aAMS 93A 084 $aLC QH545.A1S34 100 1 $aScheffer, Marten$0478392 245 10$aCritical transitions in nature and society /$cMarten Scheffer 260 $aPrinceton, N. J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2009 300 $axi, 384 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm 440 0$aPrinceton studies in complexity 504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 650 0$aEcological disturbances 650 0$aSocial evolution 650 0$aThreshold logic 650 0$aGlobal environmental change 650 0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on 650 0$aBiogeography 650 0$aSystem theory 856 41$zTable of contents$uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018880930&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA 907 $a.b14110702$b03-03-14$c23-04-13 912 $a991002036529707536 945 $aLE013 93A SCH11 (2009)$g1$i2013000219028$lle013$op$pE43.89$q-$rl$s- $t0$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i15520304$z01-07-13 996 $aCritical transitions in nature and society$9264573 997 $aUNISALENTO 998 $ale013$b23-04-13$cm$da $e-$feng$gnju$h0$i0 LEADER 03184nam 22006255 450 001 9910698650203321 005 20251008153659.0 010 $a3-031-28436-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-28436-6 035 $a(CKB)5580000000531624 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-28436-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7239145 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7239145 035 $a(PPN)269656960 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7237634 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000531624 100 $a20230415d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Brief History of the Metric System $eFrom Revolutionary France to the Constant-Based SI /$fby Carmen J. Giunta 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 81 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aHistory of Chemistry 311 08$a3-031-28435-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Decimal Ideas before Revolutionary France -- Reform of Weights and Measures in Revolutionary France -- Metrication in France and Beyond: the Meter Goes International -- The Système International d?Unités (SI) of 1960 -- Changes in the SI from its Introduction (1960) to the Explicit-Constant Revision (2019) -- The Metric System and the United States. 330 $aThis book succinctly traces the history of the metric system from early modern proposals of decimal measures, to the birth of the system in Revolutionary France, through its formal international adoption under the supervision of an international General Committee of Weights and Measures (CGPM), to its later expansion into the International System of Units (SI), currently formulated entirely in terms of physical constants. The wide range of human activities that employ weights and measures, from practical commerce to esoteric science, influenced both the development and the diffusion of the metric system. The roles of constants of nature in the formulation of the 18th-century metric system and in the 21st-century reformulation of the SI are described. Finally, the status of the system in the United States, the last major holdout against its everyday use, is also discussed. 410 0$aHistory of Chemistry 606 $aMeasurement 606 $aMeasuring instruments 606 $aChemistry$xHistory 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aMeasurement Science and Instrumentation 606 $aHistory of Chemistry 606 $aHistory of Science 615 0$aMeasurement. 615 0$aMeasuring instruments. 615 0$aChemistry$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 14$aMeasurement Science and Instrumentation. 615 24$aHistory of Chemistry. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 676 $a780 700 $aGiunta$b Carmen J.$01352766 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910698650203321 996 $aA Brief History of the Metric System$93200528 997 $aUNINA