Bibliographic Records of 'Millimeter of Mercury' Usage, 1801-1850
by Cardozo-Montilla, Miguel Angel / Harvard Dataverse·Updated 16d ago
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Description
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.
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