The making of measure and the promise of sameness / Emanuele Lugli.
Lugli, Emanuele, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2019
QC85 .L84 2019
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Title The making of measure and the promise of sameness / Emanuele Lugli.
Author Lugli, Emanuele, author.
ISBN 9780226612522 (electronic book)
022661252X (electronic book)
9780226612492
022661249X
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number QC85 .L84 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 389/.1509450902
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Preface. Written in stone
Part 1. Safes: Thinking through history ; Measurements, epistemological filters ; Metrological blurs ; The silent maneuvering of the tavole di ragguaglio ; Naturalizing measurements ; Metrologies ; Measureless art
Part 2. Squares: The Pratissolo deal ; Opacifying the invisible ; The pietre di paragone ; Measurements, made and remade ; In the open ; Disciplining standards ; the politics of measurement ; Measurements and the people
Part 3. Cities: Divine measures ; From fratres penitentie to religiosi viri ; Cutting through buildings ; Invisible boundaries ; Imposing self-control ; The ideology of order ; The height of Christ ; The touch of measurements
Part 4. Fields: Dividing up the land ; The origins of medieval measurements ; Geo-metria ; Thinking through squares ; Frustrating bodies ; Fibonacci's standardizations
Conclusion. The metamorphoses of measurements.

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