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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Conference on the History of Quantification in the Sciences (1959 : New York) Quantification. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [c1961] (OCoLC)594806753 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harry Woolf; Social Science Research Council (U.S.) |
| OCLC Number: | 323271 |
| Notes: | "Conference held in the offices of the Social Science Research Council on 20-21 November, 1959." |
| Description: | 224 p. 26 cm. |
| Contents: | The conference on the history of quantification in the sciences / Harry Woolf -- Some aspects of quantification in science / S.S. Wilks -- Quantification in medieval physics / A.C. Crombie -- The function of measurement in modern physical science / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Quantification in chemistry / Henry Guerlac -- The history of quantification in medical science / Richard H. Shryock -- The beginning and growth of measurement in psychology / Edwin G. Boring -- On the progress of quantification in economics / Joseph J. Spengler -- Notes on the history of quantification in sociology- trends, sources and problems / Paul F. Lazarsfeld -- Quantification in biology / R.W. Gerard. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Harry Woolf. |
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