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Wisdom --- Intellect --- Weight (Physics)

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Mechanics --- Mechanics --- Weight (Physics) --- Weights and measures, Arab. --- Measurement.

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Im Verlauf des 18. Jahrhunderts wurde in wissenschaftlich interessierten Kreisen immer wieder der Wunsch laut, die äusserst heterogenen Masse und Gewichte zu homogenisieren. Die Gelehrten störten sich zunehmend an den gebräuchlichen, über Jahrhunderte gewachsenen lokalen Masssystemen. Diese anthropomorphen Masse, wie der Fuss oder die Elle, behinderten in den Augen der Wissenschaftler durch ihre Uneinheitlichkeit und Ungenauigkeit den Austausch von Ideen und Handelswaren und damit schlussendlich den wissenschaftlichen, ökonomischen und gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt. Gegen Ende des Jahrhundert

Weights and measures --- Measures --- Physics --- Metrology --- Units of measurement --- Weight (Physics) --- History. --- France --- Switzerland

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Measurements are a central institutional component of markets and economic exchange. By the nineteenth century, the measurement system in Britain was desperately in need of revision: a multiplicity of measurement standards, proliferation of local or regional weights and measures, and a confusing array of measurement practices made everyday measurements unreliable. Aashish Velkar uncovers how metrology and economic logic alone failed to make 'measurements' reliable, and discusses the importance of localised practices in shaping trust in them. Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth-Century Britain steers away from the traditional explanations of measurement reliability based on the standardisation and centralisation of metrology; the focus is on changing measurement practices in local economic contexts. Detailed case studies from the industrial revolution suggest that such practices were path-dependent and 'anthropocentric'. Therefore, whilst standardised metrology may have improved precision, it was localised practices that determined the reliability and trustworthiness of measurements in economic contexts.

Weights and measures --- Metrology --- Science --- Measurement --- Measures --- Physics --- Units of measurement --- Weight (Physics) --- History --- Great Britain --- Commerce --- Arts and Humanities

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History of the Netherlands --- Weighhouses --- Weights and measures --- History. --- Measures --- Physics --- Metrology --- Units of measurement --- Weight (Physics) --- Weigh-houses --- Public buildings --- History