| The Quantifying Spirit in the 18th Century |
| PREFACE |
 | Introductory Essay |
 | PART 1 RATIONALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE |
| 1 The Mathematical Philosophy |
| 2 The Broken Circle |
| 3 Systematics and the Geometrical Spirit |
| 4 Measure of Ideas, Rule of Language: Mathematics and Language in the 18th Century |
| PART 2 MORE EXACT SCIENCES |
| 5 Late Enlightenment Meteorology |
| 6 Accuracy, Rhetoric, and Technology: The Paris-Greenwich Triangulation, 1784–88 |
| 7 The Measure of Enlightenment |
| PART 3 WIDER APPLICATIONS |
| 8 The Changing Role of Numbers in 18th-Century Chemistry |
| 9 The Most Confused Knot in the Doctrine of Reproduction |
| 10 Labs in the Woods: The Quantification of Technology During the Late Enlightenment |
| 11 The Calculating Forester: Quantification, Cameral Science, and the Emergence of Scientific Forestry Management in Germany |
| 12 Society in Numbers: The Debate over Quantification in 18th-Century Political Economy |
| 13 The Laplacean View of Calculation |
| BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AFTERWORD |
| INDEX |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | Q |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | X |
| • | Z |