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Published by Pranava Books, 2020
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Language: fre Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from BK edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. THERE MIGHT BE DELAY THAN THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE DUE TO COVID-19. Pages: 360 Pages: 360.
Published by Chapitre.com - Impression à la demande
ISBN 10: 4769559798ISBN 13: 9784769559795
Seller: Chapitre.com : livres et presse ancienne, LAMNAY, France
Book Print on Demand
Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Sur l'homme etle développement desesfacultés, ouEssaidephysiquesociale. Tome 2 / parA.Quételet, [Edition de 1835] - Nombre de page(s) : 347 - Poids : 0g - Genre : sociologie Print on Demand.
Published by Bruxelles: 1974., 1974
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. 158 pp. Original wrappers. Very Good. Memorial Adolphe Quetelet publié à l'occasion du centième anniversaire de sa Mort No. 3. This book should not be confused with Adolphe Quetelet 1796-1874: Exposition documentaire présentée à la Bibliothèque Royale Albert I à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort d' Adolphe Quetelet (Bruxelles: Palais des Académies, 1974), which contains xxxi + 205 pp; 16 illus. Both publications are scarce.
Published by Brüssel [8 März ], 1851
Seller: manuscryptum - Dr. Ingo Fleisch, Berlin, Germany
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Französische Handschrift auf Papier, 2 1/4 SS. auf 2 Bll., c. 20,5 x 13 cm. Falt- und Knickstellen. Als Sekretär der "Academie Royale de Belgique" (mit gedrucktem Briefkopf) an den Herausgeber des "Moniteur Belge", dem er einen Fehler in der Berichterstattung des "Moniteur" mitteilt: Die seitens der königliche Akademie ausgelobte Gewinnsumme für den Gedichtwettbewerb in französischer und flämischer Sprache betrügen nicht 600, sondern 1000 Francs. - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet war Professor für Astronomie und Mathematik, Direktor des Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Präsident der statistischen Zentralkommission für Belgien und ständiger Sekretär der Akademie der Wissenschaften. Quetelet begründete die moderne Sozialstatistik und entwickelte, den Body-Mass-Index (Quetelet-Index, Körpermassenzahl).
Published by Paris, à la Librairie scientifique-industrielle de Malher et Cie, M DCCC XXIX / -, à la Librairie classique et élémentaire de L. Hachette, M DCCC XXXIII (Paris, 1829-1833)., 1833
Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Germany
1 blank leaf; foretile, titlepage, (3) 508 pages, 10 multiple folded engraved plates; 1 blank leaf. / 1 blank leaf; foretitle, titlepage, 332 pages, multiple folded plates 11-14; 1 blank leaf. - Original gently gilt and gilt-titled green half-morocco bindings of the period over 4 raised bands with marbled endpapers; 8vo.(ca. 20,5 x 14 x 5 cm; ca. 1,1 kg.). *** [Endgültig ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF / Ultimately fading SPRING-SALE: um über 35% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Montag 06.05.2024, 24 Uhr (PRICE REDUCTION of over 35% until Monday, May 6th 2024); ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 265,-] --- FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF HERSCHEL'S FIRST MAJOR WORKS, BIBLIOPHILE BOUND ORIGINALS; 2 VOLUMES COMPLETE. - Volume 2 is the real first french edition by Hachette with the misspelling 'Werhulst' on the titlepage and plates 11-14 according to the english original in the 'Encyclopaedia Metropolitana', not the reprint by Malher with Quetelet's appendix and an additional 15th plate. --- Ends of spines slightly rubbed, vol. 1 with holograph gift inscription dated 1884 at front flyleaf, vol. 2 partly somewhat foxy; A BEAUTIFUL SET.
Published by London: Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849., 1849
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition in English of Lettres à Son Altesse Royale le Duc regnant de Saxe-Coburg et Gotha sur la théorie des probabilités, appliquée aux science morales et politiques (Brussels: 1846). xvi, 309 pp. Original cloth, rebacked with original spine preserved. Corners of covers worn, else Very Good. '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, Ernst (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 1830's, 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' (Stigler, History of Statistics, p. 206). '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. 117-8). 'Quetelet is credited with the first published visual images of normal and skewed probability distributions' (Judy L. Klein, Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis, 1662-1938, 1997, p. 164).
Published by imp.de M.Hayez, Bruxelles, 1846
Seller: opcobooks, Rennes, France
Book First Edition
Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. In-4° , IV-450 p, fig, reliure cartonnée d'origine un peu passée, intérieur frais , petits manques de papier sur les dernières pages (sans atteinte au texte)restaurées,
Published by Bruxelles: M. Hayez, 1846., 1846
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3 leaves, iv, 450 pp. Recent 3/4 morocco and cloth, with original front wrapper bound in (note: the photo shows the wrapper prior to rebinding). A Very Good, uncut, large copy (183 mm x 275 mm), largely in its original state. '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, Ernst (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 1830's, 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' (Stigler, History of Statistics, p. 206). '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. 117-8). 'Quetelet is credited with the first published visual images of normal and skewed probability distributions' (Judy L. Klein, Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis, 1662-1938, 1997, p. 164).