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Measurement is a quite common procedure in the everyday practice of human-kind and each individual. Measurement and counting — operations directly connected with the material life of society — have developed in the process of the practical appropriation of the world by man. Both these methods have become an integral component of material production and distribution, as well as the objective point of departure for the rise of mathematical disciplines, especially geometry.1 With the help of these disciplines, measurement and counting also provide a necessary precondition for the development of science and technology.
Comenius
“In the number, weight and measure of things great secrets are hidden” (Geometry, Introduction).
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Berka, K. (1983). Introduction. In: Measurement. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7828-7_1
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