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