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QUETELET, A. Physique sociale, ou essai sur le développement des facultés de l'homme.
Bruxelles, C. Muquardt; Paris, J.B. Baillière et fils; Saint Petersbourg, Issakoff, 1869. With 3 engraved plates and many tables throughout the text. 2 volumes. (4), viii, 503, (1) pp.; (4), 485, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards, corners. Einaudi 4597; Palgrave, iii, p. 247; Cocquelin & Guillaumin, ii, p. 490-1; Menger 632. The revised and enlarged edition of Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés (1835) with much new material. This is the edition generally referred to. Quetelet was the first to promote the study of human statistics in France. Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874), Belgian astronomer and statistician. He received instruction from Laplace in the theory of probability while he was in Paris to study the methods of practical astronomy. Quetelet's influence on statistics came first of all from his practical work in census taking, the practical rules developed by him still forming the basis of modern census work. In addition he was largely responsible for the extension of statistical study from such physical facts as population, economic resources and the like to the wide field of 'moral statistics', which includes the whole realm of acts determined by moral or psychological factors. In the field of theory Quetelet is known above all for his conception of the homme moyen or average man, a conception which in its positive contribution represents the application of the Gaussian normal law of error to the analysis of distributions of data on human characteristics. As a pioneering conception, however, Quetelet's doctrine was inevitably couched in metaphysical terms-as a theory of social determination through a hypostatized abstraction.    
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