The workshop aims to provide new insights into global and local histories of the mathematical theories,practices and material cultures of measurement and quantification. Focusing on textual traditions andpragmatic contexts such as commerce, land survey, government and colonial administration, it will investigate to what extent the idea of value is shaped by the metrological procedure that constitutes actors’ categories of analysis around the world. Spanning from antiquity to the 20th century, the workshop will adopt a global perspective and it will be developed by taking into account two subject areas:
- the study of accountancy practices
- the investigation of metrological procedures
These subject areas will be approached in relation to methods and procedures that characterize the texts, geographies (local versus global), and material cultures. The workshop will gather together historians of mathematics, anthropologists, economic historians,historians specialized in global history, as well as curators. In relation to material cultures, one session of the workshop will take place at the National Museums Collections Centre, with the opportunity to see objects from the Science & Technology and Global Arts, Cultures and Design collections.
Participation
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