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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
245	0	4	_aThe Values of Precision / _ced. by M. Norton Wise.
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©1995
300			_a1 online resource (380 p.) : _b8 halftones 26 line illus. 8 tables
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tTHE VALUES OF PRECISION -- _tINTRODUCTION -- _tPART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT ORIGINS -- _tONE Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy: Determinations of Population in the Ancien Regime -- _tTWO A Revolution to Measure: The Political Economy of the Metric System in France -- _tTHREE "The Nicety of Experiment": Precision of Measurement and Precision of Reasoning in Late Eighteenth-Century Chemistry -- _tFOUR Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part I-Traveling -- _tPART TWO: INDUSTRIAL CULTURES -- _tFIVE The Meaning of Precision: The Exact Sensibility in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany -- _tSIX Accurate Measurement Is an English Science -- _tSEVEN Precision and Trust: Early Victorian Insurance and the Politics of Calculation -- _tEIGHT The Images of Precision: Helmholtz and the Graphical Method in Physiology -- _tNINE Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part II-The Age of Steam and Telegraphy -- _tPART THREE: MASS DISTRIBUTION -- _tTEN The Morals of Energy Metering: Constructing and Deconstructing the Precision of the Victorian Electrical Engineer's Ammeter and Voltmeter -- _tELEVEN Precision Implemented: Henry Rowland, the Concave Diffraction Grating, and the Analysis of Light -- _tTWELVE The Laboratory of Theory or What's Exact about the Exact Sciences -- _tTHIRTEEN Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part III-"Today Precision Must be Commonplace" -- _tINDEX -- _tCONTRIBUTORS
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe 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--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 has led to increasingly refined measures in ever-widening domains of the natural and social world. At the heart of this book, therefore, is an inquiry into the capacity of numbers and instruments to travel across boundaries of culture and materials. Many of the papers focus attention on disagreements about the significance and the credibility of particular sorts of measurements deployed to support particular claims, as in the measures of the population of France, the electrical resistance of copper, or the solvency of insurance companies. At the same time they display the deeply cultural character of precision values. Contributors to the volume include Ken Alder, Graeme J. N. Gooday, Jan Golinski, Frederic L. Holmes, Kathryn M. Olesko, Theodore M. Porter, Andrea Rusnock, Simon Schaffer, George Sweetnam, Andrew Warwick, and M. Norton Wise.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aPhysical measurements _xHistory.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / History. _2bisacsh
653			_aBanks, Joseph.
653			_aBond, G. M.
653			_aCavendish, Henry.
653			_aFinlaison, John.
653			_aHaycraft, H. C.
653			_aHelmholtz, Hermann.
653			_aHockin, Charles.
653			_aKirwan, Richard.
653			_aaccounting.
653			_aaccuracy and precision.
653			_aalgebra.
653			_aarithmetic, mental.
653			_abusiness.
653			_acalcination.
653			_achance.
653			_aconsensus.
653			_adecimal system.
653			_adisciplined practice.
653			_adiversity.
653			_aether.
653			_aexactitude.
653			_afactory.
653			_afree and equal.
653			_agentleman.
653			_agraphical method.
653			_aintegrity.
653			_aintendants.
653			_ajustice.
653			_alanguage.
653			_amanufactory.
653			_amilitary.
653			_amoral qualities.
653			_anetwork.
653			_aobjectification.
653			_apersuasion.
653			_aquantification.
653			_areplication.
653			_areproduction.
700	1		_aAlder, Ken _eautore
700	1		_aGolinski, Jan _eautore
700	1		_aGooday, Graeme J. N. _eautore
700	1		_aHolmes, Frederic L. _eautore
700	1		_aOlesko, Kathryn M. _eautore
700	1		_aPorter, Theodore M. _eautore
700	1		_aRusnock, Andrea _eautore
700	1		_aSchaffer, Simon _eautore
700	1		_aSweetnam, George _eautore
700	1		_aWarwick, Andrew _eautore
700	1		_aWise, M. Norton _eautore _ecuratore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
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