The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century /

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Otros Autores: Broberg, Gunnar (Contribuidor), Feldman, Theodore S. (Contribuidor), Fràngsmyr, Tore (Contribuidor), Frängsmyr, Tore (Editor ), Hahn, Roger (Contribuidor), Heilbron, J. L. (Editor ), Heilbron, J.L (Contribuidor), Johannisson, Karin (Contribuidor), Larson, James (Contribuidor), Lesch, John E. (Contribuidor), Lindqvist, Svante (Contribuidor), Lowood, Henry E. (Contribuidor), Lundgren, Anders (Contribuidor), Rider, Robin E. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Widmalm, Sven (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Edición:Reprint 2020
Colección:Uppsala studies in history of science ; 7
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introductory Essay
  • Part 1. Rationalization of Knowledge
  • 1. The Mathematical Philosophy
  • 2. The Broken Circle
  • 3. Systematics and the Geometrical Spirit
  • 4. Measure of Ideas, Rule of Language: Mathematics and Language in the 18th Century
  • Part 2. More Exact Sciences
  • 5. Late Enlightenment Meteorology
  • 6. Accuracy, Rhetoric, and Technology: The Paris-Greenwich Triangulation, 1784-88
  • 7. The Measure of Enlightenment
  • Part 3. Wider Applications
  • 8. The Changing Role of Numbers in 18th-Century Chemistry
  • 9. The Most Confused Knot in the Doctrine of Reproduction
  • 10. Labs in the Woods: The Quantification of Technology During the Late Enlightenment
  • 11. The Calculating Forester: Quantification, Cameral Science, and the Emergence of Scientific Forestry Management in Germany
  • 12. Society in Numbers: The Debate over Quantification in 18th-Century Political Economy
  • 13. The Laplacean View of Calculation
  • Bibliographical Afterword
  • Index

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