Weighing imponderables and other quantitative science
By: J.L. Heilbron.
Contributors: International Summer School in History of Science
Series: Berkeley papers in history of science -- 13.; Uppsala studies in history of science -- 11.; Bologna studies in history of science -- 2.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Mensuration -- History -- 18th century.; Science -- History -- 18th century.
Other titles: Historical studies in the physical and biological sciences, v. 24, pt. 1. Supplement.
Notes: "Historical studies in the physical and biological sciences, supplement to vol. 24, part 1."

"The chapters in this book originated in lectures given at the first session of the International Summer School in History of Science, held in Bologna in 1988."