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IN this paper-covered pocket edition, one of the well-known ‘Que sais-je?' series, the director of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures gives an authoritative, concise, and logical account of the important part played by measurement in science. The first chapter deals with the general principles and methods of measurement, and errors of observation. The following chapters discuss, in terms of the fundamental standards, the measurement of length, time and mass, and electrical measurements ; and, since a knowledge of the temperature is essential for the exact specification of the fundamental quantities, a further chapter describes the methods used to measure temperature. The final chapter indicates briefly the principles of measurement of several other physical quantities, and an appendix tabulates equivalents of the principal units.
Les mesures physiques
Par Albert Pérard. (Que sais-je?, No. 244.) Pp. 136. (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1947.) n.p.
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WEINTROUB, S. Les mesures physiques. Nature 161, 955 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161955b0
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