A Treatise on Man and the development of his faculties; now first translated into English
by QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
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EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of "Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés", Quetelet's foundation work of social statistics. This edition, translated by Robert Knox, contains a new preface by the author to defend his work from objections brought against it subsequent to the publication of the Paris edition of 1835. Quetelet was among the first to apply statistics to social science. His goal was to understand the statistical laws underlying such phenomena as crime rates, marriage rates or suicide rates. He wanted to explain the values of these variables by other social factors. "With Quetelet's work . . . a new era in statistics began. It presented a new technique of statistics or, rather, the first technique at all. The material was thoughtfully elaborated, arranged according to certain preestablished principles, and made comparable . . . Quetelet's average man became a slogan in ninetheenth-century discussions on social science . . . Quetelet's impact on nineteenth century thinking can in a certain sense be compared with Descartes's in the seventeenth century" (DSB XI, p.237). This English edition is of great rarity. Only one other copy is recorded as having sold in the past 30+ years (Sothebys, 1992). - Visit our website to see more images!
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- Milestones of Science Books (DE)
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- Title
- A Treatise on Man and the development of his faculties; now first translated into English
- Author
- QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William and Robert Chambers
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1842
- Keywords
- Social Statistics, sociology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mathematics;
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