Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity /
Robert Tavernor.
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2007.
- xvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.
Introduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception.