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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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Very Good in Acceptable jacket. 220pp. Binding tight and sturdy, text very good, burgundy cloth and gilt titling bright. Prev owner's name in endpaper. Paper DJ is torn halfway up spine, halfway up rear flap, creased, sunned, and clipped; it has done its job protecting the cloth, and is now retired behind Mylar wraps. NOT ex-lib. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; [From the library of noted medical scholar Caroline Hannaway. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket clipped. Contemporary signature of Hannaway on front end page. ix, 219 p., 22 cm. Caroline Hannaway was a historian of medicine with close ties to the Johns Hopkins Departments of History of Medicine and History of Science and Technology.
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This out-of-print book on measurement by Brian Ellis is extraordinarily well thought out and presented. (One can find bootleg copies around the internet, and the information contained in the book would make the purchase worth while. Still, I prefer original copies of books in every possible situation, which is why I bought the particular copy I now own. )
In any case, if you have ever wondered how on earth people came up with measuring systems, or why we measure as we do, this book is the place to start.
My interest in measuring systems stems from my continuing observation of the loose field of study generally describable as "ancient metrology." One wishes that the workers in this field were more cogent of the logic of measuring systems in the abstract. I cannot but admit that I knew very little before I read Ellis' work, and I cannot imagine how I would work out concepts in my head without having read it.
Like the phenomenal "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" or "Ancient Law," this is a book you cannot imagine having not read once you're finished with it.
