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| #79050 in Books | Alfred W Crosby | 1997-12-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.55 x5.98l,.81 | File type: PDF | 262 pages | The Measure of Reality Quantification in Western Europe 1250 1600||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Prometheus the Measurer: How Quantitfication and the Technology of Sight Shaped the West|By Bruce Lerro|Bruce Lerro Author: Forging Promethean Psychology: From the Middle Ages To The End of the 19th century
What does the use of Hindu-Arabic numbers, linear perspective painting, polyphonic singing and double-entry bookkeeping have in common? Some very provocative an|.com |The Measure of Reality is the third book in a series in which Alfred Crosby, a noted historian, asks how it is that Western European societies could have conquered so much of the world in the space of a few generations. The answer, he finds, is in
Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. More people in Western Europe thought quantitatively in the sixteenth century than in any other part of the world, enabling them to become the world's leaders. With amusing detail and historical anecdote, Alfred Crosby discusses the shift from qualitative to quanti...
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