The measure of reality : quantification and Western society, 1250-1600

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The measure of reality : quantification and Western society, 1250-1600

Alfred W. Crosby

Cambridge University Press, 1998, c1997

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"First paperback edition 1998"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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.

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