TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lugli,Emanuele
TI  - The making of measure and the promise of sameness
SN  - 9780226612522
AV  - QC85 .L84 2019eb
U1  - 389/.1509450902 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Metrology
KW  - Weights and measures
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Measurement
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1268-1559
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Written in stone --; Part 1; Safes; Thinking through history; Measurements, epistemological filters; Metrological blurs; The silent maneuvering of the tavole di ragguaglio; Naturalizing measurements; Metrologies; Measureless art --; Part 2; 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 --; Part 3; 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 --; Part 4; Fields; Dividing up the land; The origins of medieval measurements; Geo-metria; Thinking through squares; Frustrating bodies; Fibonacci's standardizations --; Conclusion; The metamorphoses of measurements
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