Values of Precision

Name: Values of Precision
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ISBN: 9780691016016

ISBN-10: 0691016011

ISBN-13: 9780691016016

Edition: 1995

Authors: M. Norton Wise

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The Values of Precisionexamines 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--with their increasingly widespread bureaucracies for managing trade, taxation, and armies--and large-scale commercial enterprises--with their requirements for standardization and mass production--have been the major promoters of numerical precision. Taking advantage of the resources available, scientists and engineers have entered a symbiotic relationship with state and industry, which in turn…

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List price: $84.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/6/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction


Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy: Determinations of Population in the Ancien Regime


A Revolution to Measure: The Political Economy of the Metric System in Francep39


"The Nicety of Experiment": Precision of Measurement and Precision of Reasoning in Late Eighteenth-Century Chemistry


Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement



Traveling


The Meaning of Precision: The Exact Sensibility in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany


Accurate Measurement Is an English Science


Precision and Trust: Early Victorian Insurance and the Politics of Calculation


The Images of Precision: Helmholtz and the Graphical Method in Physiology


Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement



The Age of Steam and Telegraphy



The Morals of Energy Metering: Constructing and Deconstructing the Precision of the Victorian Electrical Engineer's Ammeter and Voltmeter



Precision Implemented: Henry Rowland, the Concave Diffraction Grating, and the Analysis of Light



The Laboratory of Theory or What's Exact about the Exact Sciences?



Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement



"Today Precision Must be Commonplace"


Index