
The Values of Precision
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Many of the papers focus attention on disagreements about the significance and the credibility of particular sorts of measurements deployed to support particular claims, as in the measures of the population of France, the electrical resistance of copper, or the solvency of insurance companies. At the same time they display the deeply cultural character of precision values. Contributors to the volume include Ken Alder, Graeme J. N. Gooday, Jan Golinski, Frederic L. Holmes, Kathryn M. Olesko, Theodore M. Porter, Andrea Rusnock, Simon Schaffer, George Sweetnam, Andrew Warwick, and M. Norton Wise.
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Enlightenment Origins
- One: Quantification, Precision, and Accuracy
- Two: A Revolution to Measure
- Three: "The Nicety of Experiment
- Four: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement
- Part Two: Industrial Cultures
- Five: The Meaning of Precision
- Six: Accurate Measurement Is an English Science
- Seven: Precision and Trust
- Eight: The Images of Precision
- Nine: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement
- Part Three: Mass Distribution
- Ten: The Morals of Energy Metering
- Eleven: Precision Implemented
- Twelve: The Laboratory of Theory or What's Exact about the Exact Sciences?
- Thirteen: Precision: Agent of Unity and Product of Agreement
- Index
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