Vienna in the age of uncertainty : science, liberalism, and private life /
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Chicago :
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2007.
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Table des matières:
- Introduccíón: a scientific dynasty
- The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s
- In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s
- Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age
- The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s
- Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle
- The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900
- Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908
- Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918
- The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926
- Conclusion : a family's legacy
- Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree
- Bibliography
- Index.