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Cultures of Quantification 2022/23 Winter
UGST4077 - Cultures of Quantification (Winter 2023)
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[19] March 14 - Beer and thermodynamics
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[21] March 21 - Visualizing statistics
[20] March 16 - Facts and errors
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Francis Galton, “
Generic images
,”
Nineteenth Century
6 (1879): 157–169.
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[19] March 14 - Beer and thermodynamics
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[1] January 10 - Science, technology, and European integration
[2] January 12 - The moral sciences in the French Revolution
[3] January 17 - The slogan of the day is uniformity
[4] January 19 - Natural philosophy and republican politics
[5] January 24 - Malthusian dilemmas
[6] January 26 - Political economy as the "master-science of civil life"
[7] January 31 - Tragedies of development
[8] February 2 - The granary of science
[9] February 7 - Statistics and cultural betterment
[10] February 9 - The personal equation
[11] February 14 - Beyond the doctrines of chance and necessary connexion
[12] February 16 - Auditorium and spectatorium
[13] February 21 - The photographic perspective (1)
[14] February 23 - The photographic perspective (2)
[15] February 28 - Revolutionary feelings
[16] March 2 - Revolutionary feelings (2)
[17] March 7 - Markers of progress: The Crystal Palace exhibition
[18] March 9 - Crystal Palace primary source presentations
[19] March 14 - Beer and thermodynamics
[21] March 21 - Visualizing statistics
[22] March 23 - Measures of labor
[23] March 28 - Laboratory and factory
[24] March 30 - The decline of positivism
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[21] March 21 - Visualizing statistics