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

"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.Republished in 1869 under title: Physique sociale.Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection,Kress Lib.,"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.Mode of access: Internet.Quarter green sheep and mottled paper over boards; spine stamped in gold. Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans; his bookplate on upper paste-down

Météorologie de la Belgique comparée à celle du globe.

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Sciences mathématiques et physiques chez les Belges, au commencement du XIXe siècle.

État général des sciences.--Sciences.--Littérateurs et artistes belges.--Savants et littérateurs étrangers--leurs relations avec la Belgique.Mode of access: Internet

Mémoire sur les variations diurne et annuelle de la température, et en particulier de la température terrestre à différentes profondeurs : d'après les observations faites à l'observatoire de Bruxelles /

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[correspondence] Brief van Lambert Adolf Jacques Quetelet aan Jan Frans Willems.

Brussel, 22/12/1835Namens de Académie Royale des Sciences et de Belles-LettresBijzondere collectie