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‎Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Weighing Imponderables and other Quantitive Science around 1800 - Supplement to Volume 24, Part 1 (1993) , (1. The standard Model : 1.1. The scheme of imponderables (An epoch in physical science in physical science - A world of as-if) - 1.2. Between calculus and chemistry - 2. Some Means to the End : 2.1. New angles on angles (As easy as ? -Completing the circle) - 2.2. Measuring imponderables (The first weightless weighings - Caloric) 3. Laplace's School : 3.1. The spirit of Arcueil (The school tie - The dead hand) - 3.2. Mathematical figleaf (Clairaut and Newton - The Laplace transformation) - 3.3. Sound and fury (Lagrange and Newton - Laplace's approach - Enter ? - Again the figleaf) - 4. Varieties of Mercantilist Mathematics : 4.1. Cartographic control (A french business - Enter the Army - An export business - The cross-channel link - Imperial measures) - 4.2. The shape of science and the Earth (Newton's apple - Elusive ellipticity - Revolutionary geodesy - No ellipsoid of revolution))‎

‎University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1993 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 337 pages‎

‎few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1993 Contents, Chapitres : 1. The standard Model : 1.1. The scheme of imponderables (An epoch in physical science in physical science - A world of as-if) - 1.2. Between calculus and chemistry - 2. Some Means to the End : 2.1. New angles on angles (As easy as ? -Completing the circle) - 2.2. Measuring imponderables (The first weightless weighings - Caloric) 3. Laplace's School : 3.1. The spirit of Arcueil (The school tie - The dead hand) - 3.2. Mathematical figleaf (Clairaut and Newton - The Laplace transformation) - 3.3. Sound and fury (Lagrange and Newton - Laplace's approach - Enter ? - Again the figleaf) - 4. Varieties of Mercantilist Mathematics : 4.1. Cartographic control (A french business - Enter the Army - An export business - The cross-channel link - Imperial measures) - 4.2. The shape of science and the Earth (Newton's apple - Elusive ellipticity - Revolutionary geodesy - No ellipsoid of revolution) minor folding tracks on the bottom right corner of the wrappers, few foxings on the borders, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 337‎