Sur l’Homme et le Développement de ses Facultés, ou Essai de Physique Sociale

by Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Bachelier, 1835. First edition of Quetelet's principal work in which he presented his conception of the homme moyen “average man” as the central value about which measurements of a human trait are grouped according to the normal distribution. “With Quetelet's work of 1835 a new era in statistics began. It presented a new technique of statistics, or, rather, the first technique at all. The

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