Nadine de Courtenay, Olivier Darrigol, Oliver Schlaudt
:: Routledge, series "History and Philosophy of Technoscience"
:: January 2019
:: 212 p.
:: ISBN: 9781138483859
:: E-book ISBN : 9781351048989
TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Introduction;
2. The origins of the Metre Convention, the SI and the development of modern metrology;
3. Justifying and motivating an SI for all people for all time;
4. Reforming the International System of Units: On our way to redefine the base units solely from fundamental constants and beyond;
5. Strategies for the definition of a system of units;
6. Relations between units and relations between quantities;
7. On the Conceptual Nature of the Physical Constants;
8. And how experiments Begin: The International Prototype Kilogram and the Planck Constant;
9. The SI and the Problem of Spatiotemporal Constancy