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The Values of Precision.
The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, the essays in this volume support the view that centralizing states...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Enlightenment Origins
- One: Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy: Determinations of Population in the Ancien Régime
- Andrea Rusnock
- Two: A Revolution to Measure: The Political Economy of the Metric System in France
- Ken Alder
- Three: "The Nicety of Experiment": Precision of Measurement and Precision of Reasoning in Late Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
- Jan Golinski
- Four: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part I-Traveling
- M. Norton Wise
- Part Two: Industrial Cultures
- Five: The Meaning of Precision: The Exact Sensibility in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany
- Kathryn M. Olesko
- Six: Accurate Measurement Is an English Science
- Simon Schaffer
- Seven: Precision and Trust: Early Victorian Insurance and the Politics of Calculation
- Eight: The Images of Precision: Helmholtz and the Graphical Method in Physiology
- Frederic L. Holmes and Kathryn M. Olesko
- Nine: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part II-The Age of Steam and Telegraphy
- M. Norton Wise
- Part Three: Mass Distribution
- Ten: The Morals of Energy Metering: Constructing and Deconstructing the Precision of the Victorian Electrical Engineer's Ammeter and Voltmeter
- Graeme J. N. Gooday
- Eleven: Precision Implemented: Henry Rowland, the Concave Diffraction Grating, and the Analysis of Light
- George Sweetnam
- Twelve: The Laboratory of Theory or What's Exact about the Exact Sciences?
- Andrew Warwick
- Thirteen: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part III-"Today Precision Must be Commonplace"
- M. Norton Wise
- Index
- Contributors