Size (Measuring Up)

by PeterPatilla (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $126.90

  Charting the development of measurement through history, and the variety of methods used, this book, which is one of a series, shows how we work out the size of things when they are difficult to weigh or measure. Seashells and gourds were among the first measures of capacity. These developed over the years via pints of corn and barrels of soap to the accurate measures of today. This book reveals how to strike a bushel and how ancient Greek mathematicians devised theories on volume and area.