P
Palatine Society, 161 , 168 -9, 170
Pallas, Peter Simon, 282 , 287
Parameter variation, 296
Parental contributions (theories of), 275 , 277 , 282 -4
Paris Academy of Sciences, 11 , 180 , 216 , 388
Paris Greenwich triangulation, 186 -95, 216 -7
Paris baseline, 200 -1
Paris clinical school, 99
Parish priests, 358
Paris Observatory, 221
Pasigraphy. See Universal languages
Patent Law of 1791, 218
Pendulum clock, 7
Petit nomenclateur , 122 -3
Pharmaceutical science, 107 -8, 249 -50;
training of apothecaries, 250
Philosophia botanica (Linnæus), 74 , 78
Philosophia practica universalis (Wolff), 32
Philosophia prima sive ontologia (Wolff), 32
Philosophical essay on the theory of probability (Laplace), 378 -9
Philosophical transactions , 163 , 173 , 187
Philosophie chimique (Fourcroy), 106
Philosophy (influence of). See Aristotelian tradition; Condillac
Philosophy (mathematization of). See Rationalism; Wolffianism
Phlogiston theory, 93 , 94 , 260 , 264 -5
Photometry, 144
Physicotheology, 35 , 36 , 41 -2, 54
Physics:
experimental, 157 -8;
physical properties, 105 -6;
and the systematic model, 103 -5.
See also Chemical revolution
Physics reduced to systematic tables (Barruel), 103
Picard, Jean, 180
Pietism, 31 -2
Pinel, Philippe, 99 -100
"Pinte," 207
Plant reproduction, 268 , 275 ;
animalcule theory, 272 -3, 277 , 287 ;
Aristotelian doctrine, 277 ;
limited variability theory, 286 , 287 -8;
problem of plant sexuality, 269 -71;
theory of inconsistency of form, 282
Plants:
binomial nomenclature of, 21 , 74 , 79 , 80
Plenitude of being:
measurements of, 54 -61, 62 -3
Pneumatics, 143
Polestar observations, 190
Polhem, Christopher, 56 , 294 , 295 , 296 -7, 298 ;
background of, 300
Political arithmetic, 10 -11, 14 , 349 , 350 , 359 -60.
See also Statistics
Political economy:
cartography, surveys, and government, 201 ;
conservative influence of institutions, 218 ;
democracy and the decimal, 213 ;
internationalism, 222 ;
locus for the quantifying spirit, 22 -3, 392 .
See also French Revolution; Political arithmetic; Statistics
Politics:
of the metric system, 208 -9, 212 -5, 219 -24, 238 -9;
of the Paris baseline, 200 -1
Politisk arithmetica (Berch), 356
Pollination (of hybrids), 278 -9
Polygraphie , 125
See also Statistics
Porter, Roy, 382
Pott, Johann Heinrich, 249 , 257 -8
Practicality, 3 ;
applications of statistics, 350 , 355 -7, 379 -80.
See also Instrumentalism
Practical proof that mathematics serves indispensable services for forestry (Oettelt), 327
Praecepta grammatica atque specimina linguae philosophicae sive universalis, ad omnevitae genus adcommodatae (Kalmár), 120
Preformation theory, 287
Price, Richard, 350
Prieur de la Côte d'Or, Comte Claude Antoine, 212 , 219 , 229 , 231
Principia mathematica (Newton), 19 , 183 , 377
Principles of forest-economy (Moser), 320
Prony, Gaspard, 105 -6
Proportions:
doctrine of, 356
Prostitutes' rates, 214
Proust, Joseph Louis, 255
Provisional meter, 227 , 229 , 231 , 234 , 237
Prytologia oder Kiess-Historie (Henkkel), 257
Psychologia empirica (Wolffe), 32
Psychologia rationalis (Wolffe), 32
Public health, 154
Pyrometer, 199