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▼a Wise, M. Norton. |
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▼a The Values of Precision
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▼b Princeton University Press,
▼c 1995. |
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▼a 1 online resource (307 p.) |
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▼a Description based upon print version of record. |
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▼a Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Enlightenment Origins -- One: Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy: Determinations of Population in the Ancien Re?gime -- Andrea Rusnock -- Two: A Revolution to Measure: The Political Economy of the Metric System in France -- Ken Alder -- Three: "The Nicety of Experiment": Precision of Measurement and Precision of Reasoning in Late Eighteenth-Century Chemistry -- Jan Golinski -- Four: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part I-Traveling -- M. Norton Wise |
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▼a Part Two: Industrial Cultures -- Five: The Meaning of Precision: The Exact Sensibility in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Kathryn M. Olesko -- Six: Accurate Measurement Is an English Science -- Simon Schaffer -- Seven: Precision and Trust: Early Victorian Insurance and the Politics of Calculation -- Eight: The Images of Precision: Helmholtz and the Graphical Method in Physiology -- Frederic L. Holmes and Kathryn M. Olesko -- Nine: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part II-The Age of Steam and Telegraphy -- M. Norton Wise -- Part Three: Mass Distribution |
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▼a Ten: The Morals of Energy Metering: Constructing and Deconstructing the Precision of the Victorian Electrical Engineer's Ammeter and Voltmeter -- Graeme J. N. Gooday -- Eleven: Precision Implemented: Henry Rowland, the Concave Diffraction Grating, and the Analysis of Light -- George Sweetnam -- Twelve: The Laboratory of Theory or What's Exact about the Exact Sciences? -- Andrew Warwick -- Thirteen: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement Part III-"Today Precision Must be Commonplace" -- M. Norton Wise -- Index -- Contributors |
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▼a Wise, M. Norton
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