02550oam 2200517I 450 991095706030332120251117090243.01-351-96643-X1-78144-871-X1-351-96644-810.4324/9781781448717 (CKB)3710000001109095(MiAaPQ)EBC4825177(OCoLC)976434799(BIP)63307275(EXLCZ)99371000000110909520180706d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierReasoning in measurement /edited by Nicola MÖSSNER and Alfred Nordmann1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2017.1 online resource (275 pages) illustrationsHistory and Philosophy of Technoscience ;90-367-18076-6 1-84893-602-8 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.pt. I. Founding figures -- part II. Images as measurements -- part III. Measuring the immeasurable -- part IV. Calibrating mind and world.This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence testing. It considers photography as a measurement technology and Henry David Thoreau's poetic measures as closing the gap between mind and world. By focusing on measurements as the hard-won results of conceptual as well as technical operations, the authors of the book no longer presuppose that measurement is always and exclusively a means of representing some feature of a target object or entity. Measurement also provides knowledge about the degree to which things have been standardized or harmonized - it is an indicator of how closely human practices are attuned to each other and the world.History and philosophy of technoscience ;9.MeasurementHistoryMetrologyHistoryMeasurementHistory.MetrologyHistory.530.801MA?ssner Nicola1866472Nordmann Alfred1956-61632FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910957060303321Reasoning in measurement4473880UNINA