Adolphe Quetelet, social physics and the average men of science, 1796-1874 / by Kevin Donnelly.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781315653662
- 1315653664
- 509 D685
- 509 D685
- Q125 .D66 2016
Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-214) and index.
1. Life in the war : the end of Enlightenment in Belgium, 1796-1823 -- 2. Casualties of war : Quetelet and friends in Ghent and Brussels, 1815-23 -- 3. Stoking the sacred fire : the administration of observation in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1822-30 -- 4. From Brussels to Europe : the creation of a scientific network, 1823-9 -- 5. Physique sociale, 1825-35 -- 6. The other average man : L'homme moyen and its critics.
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