Alfred W. Crosby

Measure of Reality (eBook, ePUB)

Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were thinking quantitatively in western Europe than in any other part of the world. The Measure of Reality, first published in 1997, discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107702295
• Artikelnr.: 40130424

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Pantometria Achieved: 1. Pantometria, an introduction
2. The venerable model
3. Necessary, but insufficient
4. Time
5. Space
6. Mathematics
Part II. Striking the Match: Visualization: 7. Visualization, an introduction
8. Music
9. Painting
10. Bookkeeping
Part III. The New Model.