Exact and Easy: Decimalization in Early Modern England.
Thanks to the metrological hegemony of the metric system, decimalization is now synonymous with quantitative precision, efficient calculation, and objective understandability. But a historicization of decimalization with respect to measurements reminds us that such objectivity cannot be taken for gr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 81 - 110 |
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MIT Press
Summer2025
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