Book:Iolanda Guevara/Getting the Measure of the World

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Iolanda Guevara and Carles Puig: Getting the Measure of the World: Calendars, lengths and mathematics

Published $\text {2017}$, National Geographic

ISBN 978-84-473-8976-6


National Geographic "Our Mathematical World" series: $38$


Contents

Preface


Chapter 1. What is Measuring?
Chapter 2. Measuring the Heavens
Chapter 3. Measuring Time
Chapter 4. Measuring the Earth
Chapter 5. Measuring the Metre
Chapter 6. Measuring in Modern Times


Epilogue
Bibliography
Index