Title: The measure of reality
First published: November 28, 1996
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.
Subjects: Historiometry, Civilization, Medieval, Renaissance, Methodology, Medieval Civilization, History, Europe, history, Europe, civilization, history, Technology, history, europe, Science, history, Civilization, western, history, Historiometrie, Histoire, Methodologie, Civilisation medievale, Methods, Civilization, Time, Mathematics, Art, Music, Weights and Measures
Places: Europe
Time periods: 1492-1648, 476-1492
LC classification: D202 .C76 1997