The measure of reality
Subtitle: quantification and Western society, 1250-1600
By: Alfred W. Crosby.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval; Historiometry; History -- Methodology; Renaissance; Europe -- History -- 1492-1648; Europe -- History -- 476-1492
Description: The Measure of Reality discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as measurements of time and space and mathematical technique - but, equally and simultaneously, music and painting, thus proving that the shift was even more profound than once thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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