Overview
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 hundred rare photographs, reproductions and drawings of the instruments and their uses
Presents indirect mass determination
Gives advice to researchers and engineers about choosing the weight system
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
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) (former head of the Analytical Laboratory of Schott & Gen., Mainz, Germany) and of his wife Irene (1933-2008) and of Erich Robens.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Balances
Book Subtitle: Instruments, Manufacturers, History
Authors: Erich Robens, Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera, Susanne Kiefer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36447-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36446-4Published: 16 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50941-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36447-1Published: 01 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 730
Number of Illustrations: 404 b/w illustrations, 359 illustrations in colour
Topics: Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Applied and Technical Physics