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The Values of Precision

Hardcover • 1995 • English

The Values of Precision

By Princeton Workshop in the History of Science (1991-1992)

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The 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--ha...Show more

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9780691037592

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

The Values of Precision

Format

Hardcover

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