This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of
measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements
are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies
of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence
testing. It considers photography as a measurement technology and
Henry David Thoreau's poetic measures as closing the gap between
mind and world. By focusing on measurements as the hard-won results
of conceptual as well as technical operations, the authors of the
book no longer presuppose that measurement is always and
exclusively a means of representing some feature of a target object
or entity. Measurement also provides knowledge about the degree to
which things have been standardized or harmonized - it is an
indicator of how closely human practices are attuned to each other
and the world.
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