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Zupco presents the legacies of the Middle Ages to the pioneering reformers of the Scientific Revolution, the monumental impact of math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, & technology on modern metrology, the creations, struggles, & successes of the Metric System, & the intense battles between metrics & customary metrologies that have waged since the end of the 18th cent. Includes insights into the personalities involved in metrological events: sc...

Unlike most metrological systems throughout W. Europe, the Italian developed during the Middle Ages (MA) & Early Modern era without any ref. to a commonly accepted set of nat.-ethnic standards. Italy, with its many kingdoms, duchies, communes, etc., was never able to attain any level of metrological standardization outside the confines of severely restricted, small, independent, political jurisdictions. Not until unification in 1871, were Ital...