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Chasing Empire across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763 (review)

trade, industrialization, and state revenue concerns. Gradually, attempts were made to revise old standards with an eye to more modern and precise procedures. This last point plays a particularly prominent role in the book’s final chapter, “The Science of Measurement,” when numerous Scottish philosophers became involved in metrological issues. These included the mathematician Colin Maclaurin, his student Alexander Bryce, an iron-mill master named James Gray, the Glasgow University graduate James Stirling, and later John Robinson, professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University, and Patrick Copland, professor at Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen. This book will be of interest to a wide audience, in particular to economic historians interested in the role of weights and measures in commerce and historians of technology and science concerned with the role of measurement and the rise in the values of precision.