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The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century
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- Creator
- edited by Tore Frängsmyr, J.L. Heilbron, and Robin E. Rider
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1990]
- ©1990
- Physical Details
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- viii, 411 pages, 21 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520070226, 0585071985, 0520070224, 9780585071985
- OCLC
- ocm21338428
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-396).
- A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
- The mathematical philosophy / Tore Frängsmyr -- The broken circle / Gunnar Broberg -- Systematics and the geometrical spirit / John E. Lesch -- Measure of ideas, rule of language / Robin E. Rider -- Late enlightenment meteorology / Theodore S. Feldman -- Accuracy, rhetoric and technology : the Paris-Greenwich triangulation, 1784-88 / Sven Widmalm -- The measure of enlightenment / J.L. Heilbron -- The changing role of numbers in 18th-century chemistry / Anders Lundgren -- The most confused knot in the doctrine of reproduction / James Larson -- Labs in the woods : the quantification of technology during the late enlightenment / Svante Lindqvist -- The calculating forester : quantification, cameral science, and the emergence of scientific forestry management in Germany / Henry E. Lowood -- Society in numbers : the debate over quantification in 18th-century political economy / Karin Johannisson -- The Laplacean view of calculation / Roger Hahn