Cargando…
Adolphe Quetelet, social physics and the average men of science, 1796-1874 /
Adolphe Quetelet was an influential scientist whose controversial work on social physics was praised by American reformers, but condemned by John Stuart Mill and Charles Dickens. His long and distinguished career brought him into contact with many of the Victorian intellectual elite, including Goeth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2016]
|
| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
no. 27. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Adolphe Quetelet was an influential scientist whose controversial work on social physics was praised by American reformers, but condemned by John Stuart Mill and Charles Dickens. His long and distinguished career brought him into contact with many of the Victorian intellectual elite, including Goethe, Malthus, Babbage, Herschel and Faraday. His theories even helped inspire Dostoyevsky to write Crime and Punishment. Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning and his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822981633 0822981637 |