Innbundet • 1995 • Engelsk

The Values of Precision

Name: The Values of Precision
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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...Vis mer

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9780691037592

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Princeton University Press

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1995

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Engelsk

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The Values of Precision

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Innbundet

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