Genauigkeit. Zur Ausbildung einer epistemischen Tugend im, langen 19. Jahrhundert'. Issue 3 (5th September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Krajewski, Markus
• Is Part Of: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Volume 39:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 211
• Page End: 229
• Publication Date: 2016-09-05
• Subjects: exactitude in the humanities -- scholarly practices -- precision -- accuracy -- meticulousness -- August Boeckh -- metrology -- philology -- epistemic virtue; Genauigkeit in den Geisteswissenschaften -- Praktiken der Gelehrsamkeit -- Präzision -- Akribie -- August Boeckh -- Metrologie -- Philologie -- epistemische Tugend; Science -- History -- Periodicals; Medicine -- History -- Periodicals; 509
• DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201601772
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0170-6233

Abstract

Abstract: Exactitude. The Genesis of an Epistemic Virtue in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' . The article examines the genesis of exactitude as an epistemic virtue in both scholarly and scientific contexts in the 19th century, mainly in Prussia. Starting with an influential historiographic work on ancient metrology three semantic fields of accuracy, exactitude and precision are differentiated and pursued in their etymologies as well as applications. The historic situation between 1790 and 1860 is identified as the crucial period when the exactness of the exact sciences as well as the notion of accuracy in the humanities start to diverge from one another in order to develop an epistemic virtue each on its own.