F

Falun Copper Mine:

failure of, 251

Familles des plantes (Adanson), 79

Felbiger, Ignaz, 159

Ferguson, Eugene, 308

Ferment of knowledge, The (Rousseau and Porter), 381 -2

Ferraris, Joseph Jean, 183

Feuilles d'analyse (Monge), 102

Firmas-Périès, Comte de, 130

Fischer, Johann Carl, 9

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 1 , 384

Forest management, 15 , 316 ;

based on mass of wood, 325 -7, 328 , 330 , 331 -2;

ecosystem approach to, 342 ;

resistance to mathematization of, 342 ;

schools of, 319 -20, 321

Forestry science:

tradition of in Germany, 317 , 322 , 336 , 341 ;

mathematics used in, 327 -8, 331 , 335 -7, 340 ;

measuring volume of the cord, 328 -9

Forestry. See Forest management

Forests:

calculating value of, 33 , 331 ;

consumption and depletion of, 14 -5, 301 , 302 , 318 ;

economic importance of, 317 -8, 320 ;

the standard tree, 15 , 329 , 332 ;

mensuration and cartography of, 324 , 326 , 332 , 339 ;

regulation and standardization of, 330 , 333 -5, 339 , 340 -1;

sustained and periodic yield of, 334 -5, 337 -40.

See also Timber

Forstwissenshaft. See Forest management

Fortsetzungen (Koelreuter), 274

Foucault, Michel, 52 n, 108 , 151 , 175 , 201

Fourcroy, Antoine, 94 , 95 -6, 106

Frederick the Great, 33

Freind, John, 256

French Revolution, 373 ;

encouraged quantifying, 14 , 213 , 242 , 390 ;

and meteorology, 173 -4;

revolutionary calendar, 213 -4;

and the telegraph, 125 -6, 127 -8.

See also Metric system; Political economy; Politics