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Crosby, Alfred W., The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 245 pp.
- Resum
- 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 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.
Contents:
* Preface · ix
- Part 1. Pantometry Achieved
* 1. Pantometry: An Introduction · 3
* 2. The Venerable Model · 21
* 3. Necessary but Insufficient Causes · 49
* 4. Time · 75
* 5. Space · 95
* 6. Mathematics · 109
- Part 2. Striking the Match: Visualization
* 7. Visualization: An Introduction · 129
* 8. Music · 139
* 9. Painting · 165
* 10. Bookkeeping · 199
- Part 3. Epilogue
* 11. The New Model · 227
- Index · 241
- Matèries
- Història de la ciència
Història de la tècnica
Aritmètica i geometria
Tècniques - Mercaderia
Geografia i viatges
Música
- Notes
- Trad. esp.: La medida de la realidad: la cuantificación y la sociedad occidental, 1250-1600, Barcelona, Crítica, 1998.
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