Making sense of absolute measurement: James Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and the invention of the dimensional formula

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 58 (C):63-79 (2017)
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