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Author |
: William Deringer |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 439 |
Release |
: 2018-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674985971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674985974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calculated Values by : William Deringer
Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the success of institutions, or divining public opinion, we are told that numbers don’t lie. But numbers have not always been so revered. Calculated Values traces how numbers first gained widespread public authority in one nation, Great Britain. Into the seventeenth century, numerical reasoning bore no special weight in political life. Complex calculations were often regarded with suspicion, seen as the narrow province of navigators, bookkeepers, and astrologers, not gentlemen. This changed in the decades following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Though Britons’ new quantitative enthusiasm coincided with major advances in natural science, financial capitalism, and the power of the British state, it was no automatic consequence of those developments, William Deringer argues. Rather, it was a product of politics—ugly, antagonistic, partisan politics. From parliamentary debates to cheap pamphlets, disputes over taxes, trade, and national debt were increasingly conducted through calculations. Some of the era’s most pivotal political moments, like the 1707 Union of England and Scotland and the 1720 South Sea Bubble, turned upon calculative conflicts. As Britons learned to fight by the numbers, they came to believe, as one calculator wrote in 1727, that “facts and figures are the most stubborn evidences.” Yet the authority of numbers arose not from efforts to find objective truths that transcended politics, but from the turmoil of politics itself.
Author |
: William Deringer |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 439 |
Release |
: 2018-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674971875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674971876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calculated Values by : William Deringer
Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers. But quantitative evidence has not always been revered, as William Deringer shows. After the 1688 Revolution, as Britons learned to fight by the numbers, their enthusiasm for figures arose not from efforts to find objective truths but from the turmoil of politics itself.
Author |
: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 932 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3344152 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bulletin - Texas Agricultural Experiment Station by : Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Author |
: James Riddick Partington |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:086693572 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calculations in Physical Chemistry by : James Riddick Partington
Author |
: Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435022934590 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoir - Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station by : Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Author |
: American Chemical Society |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1678 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: RUTGERS:43008000418220 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journal of the American Chemical Society by : American Chemical Society
Proceedings of the Society are included in v. 1-59, 1879-1937.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 1913 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101050966298 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chemical Engineer by :
Author |
: Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 860 |
Release |
: 1888 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HWHQ7M |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7M Downloads) |
Synopsis Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by : Royal Society of Edinburgh
List of fellows in v. 1-5, 7-16, 20-30, 32-33, 35-41, 45; continued since 1908 in the Proceedings, v. 28-
Author |
: Frederick W Grover |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2013-07-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486318356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486318354 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inductance Calculations by : Frederick W Grover
This authoritative reference enables the design of virtually every type of inductor. It features a single simple formula for each type of inductor, together with tables containing essential numerical factors. 1946 edition.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 968 |
Release |
: 1912 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435062288840 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Coal Trade Bulletin by :