``The etherealization of common sense? Arithmetical and algebraic modes of intelligibility in late Victorian mathematics of measurement

DOI10.1007/s00407-018-0218-yzbMath1411.01020OpenAlexW2899767005MaRDI QIDQ1728758

Daniel Jon Mitchell

Publication date: 26 February 2019

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-018-0218-y

zbMATH Keywords

quantity calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Physics (00A79)

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