The values of precision / edited by M. Norton Wise.
| Other author | Wise, M. Norton. |
| Other author | Princeton Workshop in the History of Science (1991-1992) |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995. |
| Description | viii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Quantification, precision, and accuracy : determinations of population in the ancien régime / Andrea Rusnock -- Revolution to measure : the political economy of the metric system in France / Ken Alder -- Nicety of experiment : precision of measurement and precision of reasoning in late eighteenth-century chemistry / Jan Golinski -- Precision : agent of unity and product of agreement : part 1, traveling / M. Norton Wise -- Meaning of precision : the exact sensibility in early nineenth-century Germany / Kathryn M. Olesko -- Accurate measurement is an English science / Simon Schaffer -- Precision and trust : early Victorian insurance and the politics of calculation / Theodore M. Porter -- Images of precision : Helmholtz and the graphical method in physiology / Frederic L. Holmes and Kathryn M. Olesko -- Precision : agent of unity and product of agreement : part 2, the age of steam and telegraphy / M. Norton Wise -- Morals of energy metering : constructing and deconstructing the precision of the Victorian electrical engineer's ammeter and voltmeter / Graeme J.N. Gooday -- Precision implemented : Henry Rowland, the concave diffraction grating, and the analysis of light / George Sweetnam -- Laboratory of theory or what's exact about the exact sciences? / Andrew Warwick -- Precision : agent of unity nad product of agreement : part 3, today precision must be commonplace / M. Norton Wise. |
| Local note | Little-294966--305131001301I |
| General note | Based on papers presented at the Princeton Workshop in the History of Science, 1991-1992. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 94019562 |
| ISBN | 0691037590 : |