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Dress, law and naked truth : a cultural study of fashion and form
No full textWhy are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life
Watt, S M, WX519
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/424413Surname: WATT. Given Name(s) or Initials: S M. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: WX519. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 8039.252276
Item: [2016.0049.56674] "Watt, S M, WX519
Martha Watt, Northaw Place, [Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith
No full textTouched by Smith's letter regarding her father [John Ellis (c 1710-1776), zoologist]. Would like to see Smith's collections when she is next in London.
[On the reverse of this letter is a note by Pleasance Smith stating that Mrs Watt was the only child of John Ellis FRS, "illustrous as the author of a work on Corallines" and direction to an additional letter in the "Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith" [see RelatedMaterial below]
Martha Watt, Northaw Place, [Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith
No full textTouched by Smith's letter regarding her father [John Ellis (c 1710-1776), zoologist]. Would like to see Smith's collections when she is next in London.
[On the reverse of this letter is a note by Pleasance Smith stating that Mrs Watt was the only child of John Ellis FRS, "illustrous as the author of a work on Corallines" and direction to an additional letter in the "Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith" [see RelatedMaterial below]
Demonstrativ Watt balansvåg i Lego
No full textThe unit kilogram is defined by an artifact, consisting of platinum and iridium. This artifact does only exist in one copy and in addition to this there are forty kilogram prototypes in a number of countries metrology institutes. It has, during a longer time, shown that a few of these prototypes are drifting in weight compared to the original artifact and of this reason there are now a process of establishing a new definition of the kilogram going on which is going to be defined with the help of a so called watt balance after the fact that the Planck constant has been given a fixed value. The purpose of this work has been to build a demonstratively version of a watt balance in Lego, where functions for weighing mass and calculations of Planck’s constant are included. This scale will be used in purpose of education to raise the knowledge of how watt balances works. All work has been conducted at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, which is the national metrology institute in Sweden. A metrology institute is the organization responsible for the fundamental SI units in the country. The completed thesis is the build-up of a watt balance in Lego that has gotten the functionality that has been wanted, although with a small systematic fault resulting in a wrongly measured weight. The scale shows the principle of how a measurement with a watt balance is made, with regards to both mass and a calculation of Planck’s constant. As a result of this study, it has shown that it is necessary with thorough work if a high level of accuracy is to be achieved. Good knowledge of the real function in addition to good components is of utmost importance to be able to build a scale with high precision. The results are to be seen as valuable since the functionality is good enough to use in educational purpose. However, the measurement results obtained when weighing is not of high enough precision, this because of the aforementioned systematic fault. The software to control the scale did not need to be created from scratch. Instead, the files for control via LabView are provided by the authors of the report “A LEGO Watt balance: An apparatus to demonstrate the definition of mass based on the new SI”
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