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Usage examples of measurements.

In the next chapter I ask you simply to come with me through a day in the life of the lab as I go through the routine tasks of experimentation, training chicks, dissecting their brains, measuring their biochemical constituents in quantities of thousandths of a milligram, and trying to extract meaning from the tables of figures that these measurements produce.

To this end he compares measurements of atmospheric temperature and local density with barometric measurements.

This was not good news for those people whose measurements of the Earth were based on the assumption that the Earth was a perfect sphere, which was everyone.

So for four months in the summer of 1774, Maskelyne lived in a tent in a remote Scottish glen and spent his days directing a team of surveyors, who took hundreds of measurements from every possible position.

Schiehallion measurements, Hutton calculated the mass of the Earth at 5,000 million million tons, from which could reasonably be deduced the masses of all the other major bodies in the solar system, including the Sun.

The work was incredibly exacting and involved seventeen delicate, interconnected measurements, which together took nearly a year to complete.

By this time, however, thousands of measurements had been taken throughout the world.

The greatest supercomputer in the world, taking measurements in the most carefully controlled environment, cannot tell you what forms these ripplings will take, so you can imagine the difficulties that confront meteorologists when they try to predict such motions in a spinning, windy, large-scale world.

They also discovered, by means of depth measurements, that there appeared to be submerged mountains in the mid-Atlantic, prompting some excited observers to speculate that they had found the lost continent of Atlantis.

In the spirit of science, Jefferson maintained letter-perfect records of weights, measurements, and daily temperature readings.

But if I take a group of birds at random from the hatch, without doing anything different to them at all, and simply carry out the same biochemical procedure on each, the measurements I make will not be quite identical.

So at best, if I treat all the birds as similarly as possible, I must expect that the measurements I make will differ from one another by as much as 10 per cent simply by chance variation - by which I mean variation whose causes do not interest me in the context of my present experiment and whose consequences I need to eliminate from any interpretation of the I get.

Over the subsequent two decades the group went on to refine its measurements somewhat, to show that relatively short periods of enrichment, even in adult animals, could produce similar changes, and to measure more precisely some of the anatomical changes that occurred.

How can this living disorder coexist with the fantasy world of nanosecond measurements and picogram quantities?

His first concern is to bring the recorded measurements of weather phenomena into their proper order of significance.