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

Kevin Donnelly

Adolphe Quetelet: Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country
United States
Published
25 June 2019
Pages
232
ISBN
9780822966081

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

Kevin Donnelly

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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