Wise, M. Norton
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자료유형 | E-BOOK |
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서명/저자사항 | The Values of Precision [electronic resource]. |
개인저자 | Wise, M. Norton. |
발행사항 | Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (307 p.). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Wise, M. Norton The Values of Precision Princeton : Princeton University Press,c1995 |
ISBN | 9780691218120 0691218129 |
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내용주기 | 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 ReÌgime -- 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 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 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 |
일반주제명 | Physical measurements --History. Physical measurements |
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