Description

Paper discusses quantitative information as a historiographic instrument: its individual characteristics and those it shows in sets of data, its capacity to describe historical phenomena and the uses historian give to them; the sense and limits of quantitative precision in historiographic practice; the object of quantitative information, its process of generation and the standard in which it is expressed.
Published as: MOURA FILHO, Heitor Pinto de. O uso da informação quantitativa em História - Tópicos para discussão. Locus: Revista de História. Juiz de Fora, v. 14 n. 1. jan. - jun. 2008