Quantification
Subtitle: a history of the meaning of measurement in the natural and social sciences
By: edited by Harry Woolf.
Contributors: Woolf, Harry, ed.; Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Mensuration -- History -- Congresses; Weights and measures -- History -- Congresses; Sociometry -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
"Conference held in the offices of the Social Science Research Council on 20-21 November, 1959."
Table of contents: title: The conference on the history of quantification in the sciences / Harry Woolf; title: Some aspects of quantification in science / S.S. Wilks; title: Quantification in medieval physics / A.C. Crombie; title: The function of measurement in modern physical science / Thomas S. Kuhn; title: Quantification in chemistry / Henry Guerlac; title: The history of quantification in medical science / Richard H. Shryock; title: The beginning and growth of measurement in psychology / Edwin G. Boring; title: On the progress of quantification in economics / Joseph J. Spengler; title: Notes on the history of quantification in sociology- trends, sources and problems / Paul F. Lazarsfeld; title: Quantification in biology / R.W. Gerard.