The Story of Measurement

"This fully illustrated survey explains the ideas behind measurement units and measuring instruments, and shows how they are applied to both the physical universe - electrons, earth and stars - and the human body and mind." "Part fascinating history, part cutting-edge science, it explores everything measurable, from temperature, earthquakes and radioactivity to music, blood and social attitudes, as well as the origins of the metric system in the French Revolution. It is a story that transports the reader from Hubble space telescope images of galaxies at the edge of the known world to intelligence tests of the innermost recesses of the mind."--Jacket.