Bibliographic Records of 'Millimeter of Mercury' Usage, 1801-1850

Bibliographic information for sources published from 1801 to 1850 containing English, French, Italian, and Spanish forms of the term 'millimeter of mercury'. The data were collected and verified from December 2 to 22, 2025 via Google Books searches, with full documents retrieved from online repositories. The dataset was authored by Miguel Angel Cardozo-Montilla and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Track the linguistic evolution of a scientific unit based on the documented forms of 'millimeter of mercury'.
• Analyze the geographic spread of scientific terminology based on the language of publication.
• Study the frequency of scientific unit usage in texts based on the bibliographic source list.
• Perform citation network analysis based on the bibliographic relationships between sources.

Strengths

• Data collection and verification occurred over a specific 21-day period from December 2 to 22, 2025.
• Sources cover a defined 50-year time range from 1801 to 1850.
• Includes multilingual coverage of English, French, Italian, and Spanish texts.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Data may reflect source bias inherent to the Google Books corpus and selected online repositories.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Records were searched on Google Books, with full documents retrieved from online repositories.

Time Range

1801 to 1850

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 16:09:25; freshness should be verified.