Author: QUETELET, A. [LAMBERT ADOLPHE]
Title: Ueber den Menschen und die Entwicklung seiner Fähigkeiten. Deutsche Ausgabe, im Einverständniss mit dem Herrn Verfasser besorgt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Dr. V. A. Riecke.
Description: Stuttgart, Schweizerbart's Verlagsbuchhandlung. 1838, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, Nearly Very Good. xxiv, 656 pages, 7 plates, many statistics. Attractive quarter leather binding, gilt decorations on spine, old book dealer ticket and stamp on half-title page, top corner of half-title page torn out, otherwise a nice copy. First German edition of "Sur l'homme et le developpement des ses facultes, essai d'une physique sociale" (1835). Adolphe Quetelet's major work in which he presented his conception of the average man as the central value about which measurements of a human trait are grouped according to the normal curve. Quetelet laid the foundation for modern-day statistics. Quetelets Hauptwerk, in dem er Hilfe der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie naturgesetzliche Abläufe in der Gesellschaft nachzuweisen versucht. Good.

Keywords: Statistics, Sociology, Social Theory of Probability, Population Studies, Criminology, Science


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