M a quetelet (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hard cover in very good condition. Light shelfwear only. Pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN. Used.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Translated from the French By Olinthus Gregory Downes. Small stamp marks from the previous owner. Publication of 309 pages. There is light gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. The edges on the spine are a little frayed and a minor tear. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages. There are minor marks on pages 30 and 31, no text has been affected. All pages are accessible. The binding is excellent. In good condition considering the age of the book 1849. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Translated from the French by Olinthus Gregory Downes of the Economic Life Assurance Society. From the collection of Saul Solomon with His stamp mark. Publication of 309 pages. Original pressed boards. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The top edge of the spine is a little frayed. There is some foxing throughout the body of the book. The text remains legible. The binding is excellent. In good condition considering the age of the book (1849). GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Medium black cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Brown cloth panels of original boards secured onto newer binding. Bumped corners and some general wear. Interior is secure, clean and clear. Light foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Brown buckram boards with gilt lettering. Fading to spine, some rubbing at edges. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Hardcover. 8vo., 309 pages; VG; rebound in brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine; small bookplate on front pastedown; mild age-toning to pages; bumping to corners; webbing visible on pages 304/305; shelved case 10. 1288190. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover book. Zustand: Good + overall. First English language edition. Most important for the 1st English edition of "A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties", Quetelet's foundational work of social statistics, first published in French, "Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés". This edition 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's goal was to understand the statistical laws underlying crime rates, marriage rates or suicide rates, correlating them with 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). 8vo, x, (5)-126 pp, text in two columns, 7 lithographed plates at the end. OCLC: 8333229. Publishers leather binding of Quetelet bound with other authors: The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects by George Combe, viii, 110pp; The Conduct of the Understanding also Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke, 6, 28pp; History and Political Philosophy of the Middle and Working Classes by John Wade, 4, 174pp; General History of Civilisation in Europe, from the Fall of the Roman Empire till the French Revolution by M. Guizot, 4, 80pp; Modern French Literature by L. Raymond de Véricour, 124pp. Half brown calf with black linen boards, raised bands on spine with title label and authors label, all edges marbled. Lightly rubbed at edges, spine is rubbed with some chips to extremeties, some marks, boards dusty. Otherwise vgc.…

8vo, pp. xvi, 309, [1]; a very good copy bound in quarter calf for the Institute of Civil Engineers, the Institute's label on the front free end-paper; spine edges rubbed; translator's presentation copy to Griffith Davies.First edition in English. 'This book is really an original, if elementary, treatise on probability and social statistics, written in the form of a series of letters to the Belgian king's two nephews, Ernest (the duke to whom the book was dedicated) and Albert (who by 1846 was husband to Queen Victoria of Great Britain). Quetelet had tutored the two in the 1830s, and in writing his book as a series of letters he was adopting a form that had been used with great success by Euler in 1768, with Letters to a German Princess, a popular exposition of physical science' (Stigler, History of Statistics, p. 206).'Quetelet is credited with the first published visual images of normal and skewed probability distributions' (Klein, Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis, 16621938, 1997, p. 164).'In his autobiography Galton explains how he first encountered Quetelet's statistical methods in 1863, two years before the publication of his first article on heredity. He had immediately been attracted to Quetelet's examination of the 'law of deviation from an average', which he had discovered when reading the 1849 English translation of Quetelet's 1846 book Lettres à Son Altesse Royale le Duc regnant de Saxe-Coburg et Gotha sur la théorie des probabilités, appliquée aux science morales et politiques. In his 1846 Lettres, Quetelet used [Laplace's curve of 'possible error'] to interpret anthropomorphic data, thus giving it a new methodological significance, as has been pointed out by Stigler. Quetelet used Laplace's theorem to determine whether a series of real objects and not mere measures) could be considered homogeneous. Laplace's theorem implied that a group of measures affected by the same major causes, and varying only in terms of many minor, accidental causes, should be distributed according to Gauss' law. Quetelet's innovation was to use the Gaussian distribution as a way of detecting groups of homogeneous objects. He thus made explicit what had previously been merely implicit in Laplace's work: a Gaussian (or 'normal' distribution) is a necessary and sufficient condition of homogeneity. The Laplace-Gauss law thus left the arcane realm of the estimation of error (in the measurement of a given object) to become a tool for detecting homogeneity in groups of real objects. In particular, it became a method for identifying 'populations' as objective entities. If, for example, the chest size or stature of soldiers was approximately distributed according to Gauss' law, this would indicate that it was a real population, within which variation was merely accidental. For Quetelet, a Gaussian distribution revealed both order in apparent chaos, and also an underlying ideal type that nature tries to attain, implying that variation has no real significance. This would also explain why Darwin, if he did read Quetelet, would hardly have been attracted by his concept of a 'population'' (Jean Gayon, Darwinism's Struggle for Survival: Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection, tr. by Matthew Cobb, 1998, pp. 1178). Language: English. …