Chapter ID: CBB000774580

Vers la ligne: Circulating Measurements around the French Atlantic (2008)

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Dew, Nicholas (Author)


Pages: 53-72
Publication date: 2008
Language: English


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Book Delbourgo, James; Dew, Nicholas (2008) Science and Empire in the Atlantic World. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sartori, Sergio
Alder, Ken
Barany, Michael J.
Benschop, Ruth
Chinnici, Ileana
Djebbar, Ahmed
Journals
Spontaneous Generations
Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Free Press
Springer
Walter de Gruyter
Michigan Technological University
New School University
Concepts
Measurement
Metrology
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Metric system
Astronomy
Measuring instruments
People
Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph
Hansteen, Christopher
Langevin, Paul
Méchain, Pierre
Meitner, Lise
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Ancient
Places
Great Britain
Mexico
Ottoman Empire
Australia
China
Egypt
Institutions
Convention du mètre (1875)
Latvian Academy of Sciences
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