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Quantification: A History of the Meaning of Measurement in the Natural and Social Sciences

by Harry Woolf. 228 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Harry Woolf

Publisher:

   Bobbs-Merrill

Place of Publication:

  Indianapolis  

Publication Year:

  1961
Subjects:   Mensuration--History--Congresses, Weights And Measures--History--Congresses, Sociometry--Congresses
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Reagan, RIP?
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