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 |
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