Louis JOURDAN wrote:
>
> At 19:43 -0500 02/11/29, kilopascal wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Friday, 2002-11-29 19:30
> >Subject: Fw: [USMA:23563] RE: CNN, metric products
> >
> >
> >> John,
> >>
> >> Oprah interviewed an author in 2000 on his new book "A Practical Guide to
> >> Metrication" - his name was Francois Cardarelli - have you heard of him or
> >> the book? It's in the Oprah Book Club.
> >>
> > > Sorry I've got no more info as I did not see the program.
>
> "Scientific Unit Conversion", Fran�ois Cardarelli, Springler, 1997.
>
> An excellent book, listing thousands of units, in use or obsolete,
> with high accuracy conversion factors. Also reviews of various
> systems of units.
>
> The book MUST be on your bookshelf!
>
> Fran�ois Cardarelli lives in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada.
According to the Amazon web site the book is available for $54.95+S/H.
Springer-Verlag is not the world's most inexpensive publisher! The
paperback book is reported to have 550 pages in its second edition
(1999).
"This detailed guide is truly unique, giving
accurate metric equivalents and conversion
factors for no fewer than 10,000 scientific
units with detailed descriptions of over 2,000.
It covers the full gamut of science, technology
and medicine, and deals with US, British,
conventional metric, historic and SI units."
The published reviews rave about it.
Jim
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