Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Report of the Annual Meeting
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Report of the Annual Meeting
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Catalogue of the library of the Royal Astronomical Society, etc. [By J. W. W., i.e. J. W. Woollgar.]
Author: Royal Astronomical Society
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382506645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382506645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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.