LEADER 02671nam 2200481 450 001 9910698650203321 005 20240206204221.0 010 $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(EXLCZ)995580000000531624 100 $a20230801d2023 uy 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 $efrom revolutionary france to the constant-based SI /$fCarmen J. Giunta 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 81 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aHistory of Chemistry 311 $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 $aMetric system 615 0$aMetric system. 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