Adolphe Quetelet

Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874

By:

Kevin Donnelly

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

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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.

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Kevin Donnelly is assistant professor of history at Alvernia University in Reading, PA.

Release date Australia

June 25th, 2019

Author

Kevin Donnelly

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

232

Series

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13

9780822966081

Product ID

30447593

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