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_aCohen, I. Bernard, _d1914-2003., _e1 |
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_aThe triumph of numbers : _bhow counting shaped modern life / _cI. Bernard Cohen. _hPR |
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_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _c(c)2005. |
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_a209 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm. |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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_a1. A world of numbers -- _tNumbers everywhere -- _tNumbers in history -- _tNumbers in the Bible : the sin of King David -- _tConsequences of David's sin -- _t2. New worlds based on numbers -- _tKepler's harmonic law -- _tGalileo and the laws of motion -- _tNumbers in the life sciences : does the blood circulate? -- _tA first exercise in demography : how many people can the Earth support? -- _tThe need for life tables -- _tA new world of numbers -- _tSir William Petty and political arithmetic -- _t3. Numerology and mystic philosophy : scientists at play with numbers -- _tWhat's in a name? : converting names into numbers -- _tNumerology in science -- _tA crusader against numerological superstitions -- _t4. Numbers in the age of reason -- _tHutcheson's moral arithmetic -- _tHale's numerical plant and animal science -- _tThomas Jefferson : a life regulated by numbers -- _tBenjamin Franklin and numbers -- _tFranklin and Malthus -- _tFranklin on numbers and smallpox -- _t5. New uses for numbers -- _tNumbers and measures -- _tA concern with numbers in France : Lavoisier's essay on political arithmetic -- _tSir John Sinclair's census of Scotland -- _tPinel's medical numbers -- _tLouis and the numerical method -- _tNew uses for numbers : innovations by Condorcet and Laplace -- _t6. A deluge of statistics -- _tTables galore -- _tGuerry's studies of crime -- _t7. Statistics reaches maturity : the age of Quetelet -- _tNumbers, number science, and Joyce's Ulysses -- _tQuetelet's world of numbers -- _tThe budget of crimes -- _tThe reliability of statistics -- _tComte versus Quetelet : social physics, or sociology? -- _tWhat did Quetelet accomplish? -- _t8. Critics of statistics -- _tCarlyle and Chartism -- _tDickens and statistics -- _tThe Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- _t"Death's ciphering book" -- _tCorresponding disdain -- _tFacts and figures : the message of Hard times -- _t9. Florence Nightingale -- _tSanitary reform : the evidence of the numbers -- _tA passion for statistics. |
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_aMathematical statistics _xHistory. |
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_aStatistics _xHistory. |
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_aScience _xHistory. |
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_aScience _xMathematical models _xHistory. |
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_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027322.html |
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