[Rarebooks] FS: Adolphe Quetelet "...Sur la Theorie des Probabilities" Brussels: 1846

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Quetelet,Adolphe. LETTRES... SUR LA THEORIE DES PROBABILITES, Appliquee aux SciencesMorales et Politiques. Brussels: M. Haney. 1846. First edition. Lg. 8vo.(6),iv,450pp  Original printedwrappers; pasted to the bottom portion is a printed slip-cancel for the Parispublisher Jules Renouard who apparently acquired part of the edition. Wrappersomewhat soiled and spine chipped. The sewing of the gatherings either loose orsplit. A previous owner has left this copy in its original state and had a nicelinen box made to protect and house it.   $1,750.00(trade discount allowed)
Quetelet (d. 1874)was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician and Statistician. He is known as thefirst scientist to apply statistical methods to humans in a systematic way.
 
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