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Beyond Measure

Yazan: James Vincent
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THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR
NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.

'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.'
ROBERT MACFARLANE

'Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.'
TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up

'Beyond Measure offers, with much intellectual flair and style, a bracing new history: how the once innocent urge to quantification took over our lives, our sense of ourselves and the world.'
PANKAJ MISHRA

'The exact value of this book is hard to quantify. Weighty, precise and satisfyingly obsessive, it's also an absolute pleasure to read.'
SIMON GARFIELD, bestselling author of The Timekeepers

We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and pain. But how did measurement become ubiquitous in modern life? When did humanity first take up scales and rulers, and why does this practice hold authority over so many aspects of our lives?

Written with vim and dazzling intelligence, James Vincent provides a fresh and original perspective on human history as he tracks our long search for dependable truths in a chaotic universe. Full of mavericks and visionaries, adventure and the unexpected, Beyond Measure shows that measurement has not only made the world we live in, it has made us too.

'An epic story about humankind's relationship with the physical world. Vincent is an erudite and perceptive guide, who with energy and skill weaves history, science and reportage into an enthralling tale.'
ALEX BELLOS

'Telling the story of metrology is not easy [but] Vincent is equal to the task . . . this book is extremely good.'
THE TIMES

'This quirky history is inch-perfect.'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Gripping.' NEW SCIENTIST

'Worth its weight in gold . . . Enlightening.' OBSERVER

'Fascinating . . . an erudiite and elegant read.' MAIL ON SUNDAY

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Explores many diverse themes topics and weaves different genres of writing building to a profound conclusion.

Multidimensional

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Some interesting historical stuff and lots on the basis of SI. His science is poor; constant use of weight rather than mass, he does not understand science, he tells us a joule second is the amount of energy needed to lift a weight of a newton 1 metre; no that is a joule. A joule second is the unit of planks contstant. I was so looking forward to a clear explanation on the new definition of the kilogram, but nothing, just an equation, he describes but does not explain. Grating boring political stuff is just out of place (comments on Brexit). A mixed bag.

Too much journalism not enough science

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I like this kind of nonfiction, especially for sciency-type subject matter. Combines the personal (direct experience, anecdote) with the journalistic (interviews, research expeditions, reportage, colour writing), and the historical (what happened when, narrative, linearity, thematic chapter categorisation). There's a lot of it about these days, and I see that as a good thing. It works especially well in audiobook form when the author does their own reading - as long as they have a pleasant enough voice, which this guy does.

As many of these types of book do, this takes a single question - why do we measure things the way we do? - and follows it through, via many familiar and less well known paths, to show how something we may take for granted is worth paying attention to, because the details are actually pretty interesting even if, for most of us, they don't really matter much on a day to day basis.

This is a very well done example of the genre. No complaints - except, perhaps, for lack of depth on measuring things at quantum levels, and the weird confusions brought to measuring the universe that are still bubbling around the edges of cutting-edge physics via dark matter, dark energy, and the like. Having just finished a book that was pretty good on that stuff, though, this may just have been me. After all, most things we measure are done so in comparison to other things - that goes for books as much as distance, weight or time.

Good stuff

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I loved this. Both the content and the delivery. A book of the year list certainty.

Fantastic book

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Full of insight, charm and knowledge, and guided deftly by the author himself. The best bit is when pirates steal the kilogram.

Fascinating and sharp

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