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Bruxelles: H. Thiry-Van Buggenhoudt, 1866. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A LARGE & IMPORTANT STUDY BY ADOLPHE QUETELET ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN BELGIUM. Quetelet was one of the founders of sociology and his "impact on nineteenth century thinking can in a certain sense be compared with Descartes's in the seventeenth century" (DSB XI, p.237). Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) was a mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena. He was the founder of the Brussels Observatory and the first to apply the statistical normal distribution to characteristics of human populations. 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. In 1835 Quetelet's work ushered in a new era in statistics began. It presented a new technique of statistics or, rather,…
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Sciences Mathematique et Physiques chez les Belges au commencement du XIXe siècle, 1866 [ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES AMONG THE BELGIANS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 19TH CENTURY]
by Quetelet, Adolphe [Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet]
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