Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.05.2019
Verlag
University Of Pittsburgh PressSeitenzahl
232
Maße (L/B/H)
22.6/15.2/1.5 cm
Gewicht
340 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8229-6608-1
Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the "average man," he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation of the Quetelet Index, which came to be known as the Body Mass Index. Kevin Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.
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