Author: Statistical Society (MANCHESTER)
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Report of a Committee of the Manchester Statistical Society on the state of education in the Borough of Salford in 1835
Author: Statistical Society (MANCHESTER)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Educational Innovators
Author: W. A. C. Stewart
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349005312
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349005312
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester
Author: Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Author: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society. (Manchester Memoirs)
Author: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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Victorians and Numbers
Author: Lawrence Goldman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192663410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. Numbers were collected in the 1830s by newly-created statistical societies in response to this 'data revolution'. They became a regular aspect of governmental procedure thereafter, and inspired new ways of interrogating both the natural and social worlds. William Farr used them to study cholera; Florence Nightingale deployed them in campaigns for sanitary improvement; Charles Babbage was inspired to design and build his famous calculating engines to process them. The mid-Victorians employed statistics consistently to make the case for liberal reform. In later decades, however, the emergence of the academic discipline of mathematical statistics - statistics as we use them today - became associated with eugenics and a contrary social philosophy. Where earlier statisticians emphasised the unity of mankind, some later practitioners, following Francis Galton, studied variation and difference within and between groups. In chapters on learned societies, government departments, international statistical collaborations, and different Victorian statisticians, Victorians and Numbers traces the impact of numbers on the era and the intriguing relationship of Victorian statistics with 'Big Data' in our own age.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192663410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. Numbers were collected in the 1830s by newly-created statistical societies in response to this 'data revolution'. They became a regular aspect of governmental procedure thereafter, and inspired new ways of interrogating both the natural and social worlds. William Farr used them to study cholera; Florence Nightingale deployed them in campaigns for sanitary improvement; Charles Babbage was inspired to design and build his famous calculating engines to process them. The mid-Victorians employed statistics consistently to make the case for liberal reform. In later decades, however, the emergence of the academic discipline of mathematical statistics - statistics as we use them today - became associated with eugenics and a contrary social philosophy. Where earlier statisticians emphasised the unity of mankind, some later practitioners, following Francis Galton, studied variation and difference within and between groups. In chapters on learned societies, government departments, international statistical collaborations, and different Victorian statisticians, Victorians and Numbers traces the impact of numbers on the era and the intriguing relationship of Victorian statistics with 'Big Data' in our own age.
Prolonged Connections
Author: Steven Ruggles
Publisher: Steven Ruggles
ISBN: 0299110346
Category : Extended families
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Publisher: Steven Ruggles
ISBN: 0299110346
Category : Extended families
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Conquest of Mind
Author: David de Giustino
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317237749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the reception and diffusion of phrenology in Britain, its usefulness to various professions, and its challenge to traditional religion. The second part considers the application of phrenology in two separate social movements: prison reform and national education. This title will be of interest to students of history and philosophy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317237749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the reception and diffusion of phrenology in Britain, its usefulness to various professions, and its challenge to traditional religion. The second part considers the application of phrenology in two separate social movements: prison reform and national education. This title will be of interest to students of history and philosophy.
The Making and Shaping of the Victorian Teacher
Author: M. Larsen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230306365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification - reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230306365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification - reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual.
Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library ... Reference Department ...: Books received from Jan. 1871 to Dec. 1880
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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