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The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century edited by Tore Frangsmyr (1990 Hardcover Edition)

What do geometrically defined trees, ten-day weeks with days of ten hours, and proposals for artificial universal languages have in common? All reflect the attempt at quantification and systematization of knowledge that characterizes modern science. The quantifying spirit in the eighteenth century, a happy collaboration between Swedish and American historians of science, investigates the passion for measurement, calculation, and rational order as it grew and flourished in the sunshine of Enlightenment philosophy. The thirteen authors show how the "quantifying spirit" (l'esprit géometrique) extended its influence far beyond exact sciences like astronomy into the thinking of soldiers, bureaucrats, linguists, and natural philosophers.

Vintage Hardcover / University of California Press / 1990 / Very Good Condition

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