| Description |
viii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy: Determinations of Population in the Ancien Regime /Andrea Rusnock -- 2. A Revolution to Measure: The Political Economy of the Metric System in France / Ken Alder -- 3. "The Nicety of Experiment": Precision of Measurement and Precision of Reasoning in Late Eighteenth-Century Chemistry / Jan Golinski -- 4. Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part I - Traveling / M. Norton Wise -- 5. The Meaning of Precision: The Exact Sensibility in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany / Kathryn M. Olesko -- 6. Accurate Measurement Is an English Science / Simon Schaffer -- 7. Precision and Trust: Early Victorian Insurance and the Politics of Calculation / Theodore M. Porter -- 8. The Images of Precision: Helmholtz and the Graphical Method in Physiology / Frederic L. Holmes and Kathryn M. Olesko -- 9. Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part II - The Age of Steam and Telegraphy / M. Norton Wise |
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10. The Morals of Energy Metering: Constructing and Deconstructing the Precision of the Victorian Electrical Engineer's Ammeter and Voltmeter / Graeme J. N. Gooday -- 11. Precision Implemented: Henry Rowland, the Concave Diffraction Grating, and the Analysis of Light / George Sweetnam -- 12. The Laboratory of Theory or What's Exact about the Exact Sciences? / Andrew Warwick -- 13. Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part III - "Today Precision Must be Commonplace" / M. Norton Wise |
| Notes |
Based on papers presented at the Princeton Workshop in the History of Science, 1991-1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Physical measurements -- History.
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Standardization -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Wise, M. Norton.
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Princeton Workshop in the History of Science (1991-1992)
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| LC no. |
94019562 |
| ISBN |
0691037590 |
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