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Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences book cover

1st Edition

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences

Edited By Charles H. Pence Copyright 2026
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of quantified, statistical social science came into being. Such innovations were quickly marshaled for use... Read more

Volume 3: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social, and Human Sciences

General Introduction

Volume 3 Introduction

 

Part 1: Statistical Methodology

1. Adolphe Quetelet, “On Man”, A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1835 [tr. 1842]), pp. 5–9

2. William Jevons, The Principles of Science (1877), 2nd ed., pp. vii–xii, 265–269, 551–553

 

Part 2: Statistics in Biology

3. Francis Galton, Natural Inheritance (1889), pp. 63–70, 192–198

4. Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 2nd ed. (1900), pp. 372–375, 402–408

5. William Bateson, “Heredity, Differentiation, and Other Conceptions of Biology: A Consideration of Professor Karl Pearson’s Paper ‘On the Principle of Homotyposis’,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 69 (1901), pp. 193–205

 

Part 3: The Social Sciences

6. Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, Vol. I, 3rd ed. (1887 [1876]), pp. 3–23, 34–39

7. Agnes Sinclair Holbrook, “Map Notes and Comments”, in Jane Addams and Residents of Hull House, Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895), pp. 3–14

8. W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Study of the Negro Problems”, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 11 (1898), pp. 1–23

9. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A Red Record (1895), pp. 7–15

 

Part 4: Physiology and Perception

10. Hermann von Helmholtz, “The Facts in Perception”, in Hermann von Helmholtz, Epistemological Writings, trans. Paul Hertz and Moritz Schlick (1878 [tr. 1921]), pp. 117–146

11. Ernst Mach, “On Physiological as Distinguished from Geometrical Space”, The Monist, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1901), pp. 321–338

 

Part 5: Method in Psychology

12.Herbert Spencer, “Life and Mind as Correspondence” and “The Correspondence as Increasing in Generality”, The Principles of Psychology, 2nd ed. (1873), pp. 291–294, 350–369

13. William James, Lecture 1, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), pp. 1–25

14. J. M. Cattell, “Mental Tests and Measurements”, Mind, Vol. 15, No. 59 (1890), pp. 373–381

15. E. B. Titchener, Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice (1901), Vol. 1, pp. xiii–xviii, Vol. 2, pp. xix–xl

 

Bibliography

 

Index

 

 

Biography

Dr. Charles H. Pence is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Science and Society (CEFISES) at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

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