The making of measure and the promise of sameness / Emanuele Lugli.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226612522
- 022661252X
- Measurement -- Italy -- History -- To 1500
- Measurement -- Social aspects -- Italy
- Metrology -- Italy -- History -- To 1500
- Metrology -- Social aspects -- Italy
- Weights and measures -- Social aspects -- Italy
- Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559
- Metrology -- Italy -- Historiography
- Civilization
- Measurement
- Metrology
- Italy
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Measurement
- 389/.1509450902 23
- QC85 .L84 2019eb
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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