The making of measure and the promise of sameness / Emanuele Lugli.

Measurement is all around us - from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everyth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lugli, Emanuele (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Measurement > Italy > History > To 1500. Measurement > Social aspects > Italy. Metrology > Italy > History > To 1500. Metrology > Social aspects > Italy. Weights and measures > Social aspects > Italy. Italy > Civilization > 1268-1559. Metrology > Italy > Historiography. Civilization. Measurement. Metrology. Italy. Architektur. Längeneinheit. Stadtplanung. Städtebau. Vermessung. Italien. 31.50 geometry: general. To 1559 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xvii, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

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