TY - EJOUR A1 - Carvais, Robert TI - Measuring, Estimating, and Correcting - Commentary on 18th-Century Expert Accounts T2 - Ædificare - Revue internationale d’histoire de la construction 2020 – 2, n° 8. Comptabilités de la construction JO - Ædificare (ISSN 2649-177X), 8, 2020 – 2 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12914-1.p.0271 SN - 2649-177X SP - 271 EP - 291 AB - In the course of researching Parisian building appraising during the eighteenth century, we have noted in the appraisers’ minutes the frequency of entries pertaining to accounting operations, whether they be estimates of work done or to be done noted in the body of the appraiser’s assessment itself, or memoranda of work as appendices to said reports. In this article we present three examples corresponding to three stages of the appraisers’ calculations: toisé (measurement), prisée (estimation), and discount. PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/23 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - appraising, estimation, memorandum, toisé, prisée, discount LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/aedificare-2020-2-revue-internationale-d-histoire-de-la-construction-n-8-comptabilites-de-la-construction-measuring-estimating-and-correcting.html Y2 - 2024/06/26 ER -