Chapter 14 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
“Bourgeois England Loved Measurement”
May 2nd, 2010
Public calculation is highly characteristic of the Thorowgoodian bourgeois world, such as the political arithmeticians of the seventeenth century, first in Holland and then in England and then in France. The theory of probability might be thought to develop from an aristocratic concern for games of chance, but the concern becomes plebian, too, and anyway (more…)
