Constants

I've been reading Galison's Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps. This reads like book three of a trilogy that starts with Lost Enlightenment. Somewhere in between is missing a volume on Western clockmaking, Galileo's discovery of the four Jovian moons [that matter], and the Longitude.

One chapter is devoted to arguments about the measure of time, which tied into how to measure an angle: degrees, "grads", or some sort of decimal. (The radian was apparently not considered.) Phil Metzger raises another thought: if we should measure temperature in joules. This would render Boltzmann's Constant to 1. We'd then have 4.1 zeptojoules for room-temperature which is, what, 290s K.