| 期刊全称 | Balances | | 期刊简称 | Instruments, Manufac | | 影响因子2023 | Erich Robens,Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera,Susann | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Displays measuring weight in all ways possible.Reviews the reliability of the various methods to measure weight.Gives a historical survey of the development of scales.Richly illustrated with several h | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | The book deals mainly with direct mass determination by means of a conventional balances. It covers the history of the balance from the beginnings in Egypt earlier than 3000 BC to recent developments. All balance types are described with emphasis on scientific balances. Methods of indirect mass determination, which are applied to very light objects like molecules and the basic particles of matter and celestial bodies, are included. As additional guidance, today’s manufacturers are listed and the profile of important companies is reviewed. .Several hundred photographs, reproductions and drawings show instruments and their uses. This book includes commercial weighing instruments for merchandise and raw materials in workshops as well as symbolic weighing in the ancient Egyptian’s ceremony of ‘Weighing of the Heart’, the Greek fate balance, the Roman Justitia, Juno Moneta and Middle Ages scenes of the Last Judgement with Jesus or St. Michael and of modern balances. The photographs are selected from the slide-archives of the late Richard Vieweg (1896-1972) (former President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany), of the late Hans R. Jenemann (1920-1966) ( | | Pindex | Book 2014 |
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