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Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés : ou, Essai de physique sociale

by: Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874

Publication date: 1835

Topics: Social history, Vital Statistics, Demography

Publisher: Paris : Bachelier, imprimeur-libraire, quai des Augustins, no 55

Collection: nightingale; cdl; biomed; americana

Contributor: University of California Libraries

Language: French

Republished in 1869 under title: Physique sociale

Kress Lib.

Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection

"Florence Nightingale based her statistical methods upon this book by Quetelet, which appeared 20 years before her statistical surveys. The author presented to her the second augmented edition in 1869. She called him 'the founder of the most important science in the world.' She meant to dedicate to Quetelet an essay on the application of his discoveries, 'to explain the Plan of God in teaching us by these results the laws by which our Moral Progress is to be attained.'"--Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection (1958), p. 17

Quarter green sheep and mottled paper over boards; spine stamped in gold. Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans; his bookplate on upper paste-down