Author: Thomas Best JervisPublisher:
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Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Expediency and Facility of Establishing the Metrological and Monetary Systems Throughout India, on a Scientific and Permanent Basis, Grounded on an Analytical Review of the Weights, Measures, and Coins of India, and Their Relative Quantities with Respect to Such as Subsist at Present, Or Have Hitherto Subsisted in All Past Ages Throughout the World
Author: Thomas Best JervisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures
Author: Jan GyllenbokPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319666916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
Catalogue of Books Recently Added to the Public Library, Melbourne
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria (MELBOURNE)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India, 1500 A.D. to 1947 A.D.: pt. 5. British parliamentary papers. pt. 6. Reports of committees and commissions
Author: Catalogue of the Books and Maps in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Asiatic Society of Bengal. Oriental LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi
Author: Mississippi. State GeologistPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: A. Leo OppenheimPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022617767X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.
Popular Political Economy
Author: Thomas HodgskinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Shape of Things to Come
Author: H. G. WellsPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473345529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
First published in 1933, "The Shape of Things to Come" is science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, world events between 1933 and 2106 are speculated with a single superstate representing the solution to all humanity's problems. A classic example of Wellsian prophesy, this volume is highly recommended for fans of his work and of the science fiction genre. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.