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024 7 _a10.1007/978-3-642-36447-1
_2doi
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_2bicssc
072 7 _aSCI068000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a530.8
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100 1 _aRobens, Erich.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBalances
_h[electronic resource] :
_bInstruments, Manufacturers, History /
_cby Erich Robens, Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera, Susanne Kiefer.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aXX, 730 p. 763 illus., 359 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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505 0 _aMass and gravity -- Weights -- Weighing -- Balances -- Balances for special applications -- Balance as symbol and art object -- Documentation and archiving -- Weighing scales manufacturers.
520 _aThe 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) (former head of the Analytical Laboratory of Schott & Gen., Mainz, Germany) and of his wife Irene (1933-2008) and of Erich Robens.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 0 _aSurfaces (Physics).
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aMeasurement Science and Instrumentation.
650 2 4 _aCharacterization and Evaluation of Materials.
650 2 4 _aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
650 2 4 _aApplied and Technical Physics.
700 1 _aJayaweera, Shanath Amarasiri A.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aKiefer, Susanne.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783642364464
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36447-1
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