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Histoire & Mesure explores the history of statistics and measurement practices, from antique surveying or medieval gauging to contemporary scientific instruments. It also publishes papers using statistical, formal or quantitative methods as a tool for historical research, whatever the period and theme studied. Far from being limited to economic or demographic history, the journal has always been open to cultural and political history, archeology, etc. Refusing to isolate methodology from history, it considers that a reflection on the construction of quantitative tools helps to make a better use of them.

Journal supported by the Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (CNRS).

Latest issue
XL-2 | 2025
La quantification comme validation empirique

Quantification as empirical validation
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Sources and data are frequently placed in opposition. Historians regard data as a construct, while scientists are sceptical of the distinction between archives and data; in the critical social sciences, sources and data are ultimately seen as artefacts. The articles in this issue aim to address these questions by explaining the procedures of quantification, particularly the transformation of “sources” into “data”, while clearly and critically identifying their origins and uses. Each paper highlights the construction of sources, data and artefacts, paying particular attention to the constraints imposed by contemporary measurement tools upon the realities thus quantified. The focus then shifts to the use of these quantitative data and their integration into historical reasoning, with a view to establishing historical proof.

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