Adolphe Quetelet: Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874 (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
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Adolphe Quetelet: Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874 (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)

Adolphe Quetelet: Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874 (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)

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Kevin Donnelly (Author)  

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Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the "average man," he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation of the Quetelet Index, which came to be known as the Body Mass Index. Kevin Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.
Kevin Donnelly is assistant professor of history at Alvernia University in Reading, PA.
  • Contributor: Kevin Donnelly
  • Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • ISBN13: 9780822966081
  • Number of Pages: 232
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release Date: 2019-06-25
  • Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Kevin Donnelly is assistant professor of history at Alvernia University in Reading, PA.

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