The making of measure and the promise of sameness /
Lugli, Emanuele,
The making of measure and the promise of sameness / Emanuele Lugli. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Written in stone -- Safes: Thinking through history ; Measurements, epistemological filters ; Metrological blurs ; The silent maneuvering of the tavole di ragguaglio ; Naturalizing measurements ; Metrologies ; Measureless art -- Squares: The Pratissolo deal ; Opacifying the invisible ; The pietre di paragone ; Measurements, made and remade ; In the open ; Disciplining standards ; the politics of measurement ; Measurements and the people -- Cities: Divine measures ; From fratres penitentie to religiosi viri ; Cutting through buildings ; Invisible boundaries ; Imposing self-control ; The ideology of order ; The height of Christ ; The touch of measurements -- Fields: Dividing up the land ; The origins of medieval measurements ; Geo-metria ; Thinking through squares ; Frustrating bodies ; Fibonacci's standardizations -- The metamorphoses of measurements. Preface. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Conclusion.
9780226612522 022661252X
Measurement--History--Italy--To 1500.
Measurement--Social aspects--Italy.
Metrology--History--Italy--To 1500.
Metrology--Social aspects--Italy.
Weights and measures--Social aspects--Italy.
Metrology--Historiography.--Italy
Civilization.
Measurement.
Metrology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Measurement
Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.
Italy.
History.
Electronic books.
QC85 / .L84 2019eb
389/.1509450902
The making of measure and the promise of sameness / Emanuele Lugli. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Written in stone -- Safes: Thinking through history ; Measurements, epistemological filters ; Metrological blurs ; The silent maneuvering of the tavole di ragguaglio ; Naturalizing measurements ; Metrologies ; Measureless art -- Squares: The Pratissolo deal ; Opacifying the invisible ; The pietre di paragone ; Measurements, made and remade ; In the open ; Disciplining standards ; the politics of measurement ; Measurements and the people -- Cities: Divine measures ; From fratres penitentie to religiosi viri ; Cutting through buildings ; Invisible boundaries ; Imposing self-control ; The ideology of order ; The height of Christ ; The touch of measurements -- Fields: Dividing up the land ; The origins of medieval measurements ; Geo-metria ; Thinking through squares ; Frustrating bodies ; Fibonacci's standardizations -- The metamorphoses of measurements. Preface. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Conclusion.
9780226612522 022661252X
Measurement--History--Italy--To 1500.
Measurement--Social aspects--Italy.
Metrology--History--Italy--To 1500.
Metrology--Social aspects--Italy.
Weights and measures--Social aspects--Italy.
Metrology--Historiography.--Italy
Civilization.
Measurement.
Metrology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Measurement
Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.
Italy.
History.
Electronic books.
QC85 / .L84 2019eb
389/.1509450902