Author: Richard PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Letters of Daniel Hardcastle to the Editor of "The Times" Journal
Author: Richard PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Aashish VelkarPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139536826
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Measurements are a central institutional component of markets and economic exchange. By the nineteenth century, the measurement system in Britain was desperately in need of revision: a multiplicity of measurement standards, proliferation of local or regional weights and measures, and a confusing array of measurement practices made everyday measurements unreliable. Aashish Velkar uncovers how metrology and economic logic alone failed to make 'measurements' reliable, and discusses the importance of localised practices in shaping trust in them. Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth-Century Britain steers away from the traditional explanations of measurement reliability based on the standardisation and centralisation of metrology; the focus is on changing measurement practices in local economic contexts. Detailed case studies from the industrial revolution suggest that such practices were path-dependent and 'anthropocentric'. Therefore, whilst standardised metrology may have improved precision, it was localised practices that determined the reliability and trustworthiness of measurements in economic contexts.
“The” Quarterly Review
Author: The Literary panorama
Author: Catalogus librorum impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bulkeley BandinelCanine Pathology; Or, A Full Description of the Diseases of Dogs, with Their Causes, Symptoms, and Mode of Cure ... Interspersed with Numerous Remarks on the General Treatment of These Animals, and Preceded by an Introductory Chapter on the Moral Qualities of the Dog
Author: Delabere Pritchett BlainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel
Author: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
Author: Charles BabbagePublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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