An essential resource for scholars and a treat for curious readers, this uniquely detailed history of American weights and measures traces these everyday standa

This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and mode

This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of cuneiform