Contents

• PREFACE

• Introductory Essay
• PART 1  RATIONALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
  • 1  The Mathematical Philosophy
  • 2  The Broken Circle
  • 3  Systematics and the Geometrical Spirit
  • 4  Measure of Ideas, Rule of Language: Mathematics and Language in the 18th Century
• PART 2  MORE EXACT SCIENCES
  • 5  Late Enlightenment Meteorology
  • 6  Accuracy, Rhetoric, and Technology: The Paris-Greenwich Triangulation, 1784–88
  • 7  The Measure of Enlightenment
• PART 3  WIDER APPLICATIONS
  • 8  The Changing Role of Numbers in 18th-Century Chemistry
  • 9  The Most Confused Knot in the Doctrine of Reproduction
  • 10  Labs in the Woods: The Quantification of Technology During the Late Enlightenment
  • 11  The Calculating Forester: Quantification, Cameral Science, and the Emergence of Scientific Forestry Management in Germany
  • 12  Society in Numbers: The Debate over Quantification in 18th-Century Political Economy
  • 13  The Laplacean View of Calculation

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AFTERWORD