The Values of Precision /

The Values of Precision / / ed. by M. Norton Wise.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Alder, Ken,
Golinski, Jan,
Gooday, Graeme J. N.,
Holmes, Frederic L.,
Olesko, Kathryn M.,
Porter, Theodore M.,
Rusnock, Andrea,
Schaffer, Simon,
Sweetnam, George,
Warwick, Andrew,
Wise, M. Norton,
HerausgeberIn:
Wise, M. Norton,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1995
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.) :; 8 halftones 26 line illus. 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • THE VALUES OF PRECISION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT ORIGINS
  • ONE Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy: Determinations of Population in the Ancien Regime
  • TWO A Revolution to Measure: The Political Economy of the Metric System in France
  • THREE "The Nicety of Experiment": Precision of Measurement and Precision of Reasoning in Late Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
  • FOUR Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part I-Traveling
  • PART TWO: INDUSTRIAL CULTURES
  • FIVE The Meaning of Precision: The Exact Sensibility in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany
  • SIX Accurate Measurement Is an English Science
  • SEVEN Precision and Trust: Early Victorian Insurance and the Politics of Calculation
  • EIGHT The Images of Precision: Helmholtz and the Graphical Method in Physiology
  • NINE Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part II-The Age of Steam and Telegraphy
  • PART THREE: MASS DISTRIBUTION
  • TEN The Morals of Energy Metering: Constructing and Deconstructing the Precision of the Victorian Electrical Engineer's Ammeter and Voltmeter
  • ELEVEN Precision Implemented: Henry Rowland, the Concave Diffraction Grating, and the Analysis of Light
  • TWELVE The Laboratory of Theory or What's Exact about the Exact Sciences
  • THIRTEEN Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part III-"Today Precision Must be Commonplace"
  • INDEX
  • CONTRIBUTORS

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