Essai de taxéométrie, ou sur la mesure de l'ordre
Year of Conception: ?
Year of Writing: January 1769
Year of Publication: 1770/1772
Subject: Philosophy, Semiotics
Publication: Essai de taxéométrie, ou sur la mesure de l'ordre. Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, année 1770/1772, 327-342.(1)
Description:
Lambert develops a calculus for
measuring order, or actually, disorder. He discerns two kinds of order,
order gouverned by law, and local order or order of similarities. He
only studies the second kind and develops a formula. The formula is
applied to ordering a library, to ordering a scientific discourse.
Reviews: ADB 1773, 107-110(6)
; GGA 1773, 6(4)