G. J. N. Gooday

The Morals of Measurement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780521430982
• ISBN-10: 0521430984
• Artikelnr.: 21412407

Inhaltsangabe

1. Moralizing measurement: (dis) trust in the people, instruments and
techniques; 2. Meanings of measurements and accounts of accuracy; 3.
Mercurial trust and resistive measures: rethinking the 'metals controversy'
of 1860-94; 4. Reading technologies: trust, the embodied instrument user
and the visualization of current measurement; 5. Coupled problems of
self-induction: the unparalleled and the unmeasurable in AC technology; 6.
Measurement at a distance: fairness, trustworthiness and gender in reading
the domestic electrical meter.