About the size of it
Cairns, Warwick2007
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A serious but seriously funny book about measuring things that tells us how our weights and measures came about and how they were formed by the one guiding principle of measurement no one ever mentions.
Main title:
About the size of it / Warwick Cairns.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2007.
Collation:
155 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780230016286 (hbk)0230016286 (hbk)
Dewey class:
530.8
Local class:
530.80207
Language:
English
BRN:
1626930