Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the “average man,” he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation of the Quetelet Index, which came to be known as the Body Mass Index. Kevin Donnelly presents the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.
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Adolphe Stagg was a prominent businessman and philanthropist in New Orleans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. This book explores his life and legacy, including his contributions to education and sports.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
This account, analysis and critical evaluation of the work of Appia demonstrates how his far-sighted imagination also embraced the fundamental reform of scenic design, the use of theatrical space, and a greatly expanded conception of the nature and possibilities of theatrical art.
Title: Adolphe Renouard; or, Peasant Life and Political Clubs in France ... With numerous engravings.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Ward, James Arthur; 1852. 8 . 12626.b.20.
In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of The History of Religion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe.
Adolphe Adam, sa vie, sa carri re, ses m moires artistiques by Arthur Pougin. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1877 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
elle avait vu ses esp rances tromp es, sa jeunesse passer sans plaisir; et la vieillesse enfin l'avait atteinte sans la soumettre. Elle vivait dans un ch teau voisin d'une de nos terres, m contente et retir e, n'ayant que son esprit pour ressource, et analysant tout avec son esprit. Pendant pr s d'un an, dans nos conversations in puisables, nous avions envisag la vie sous toutes ses faces, et la mort toujours pour terme de tout; et apr s avoir tant caus de la mort avec elle, j'avais vu la mort la frapper mes yeux. Cet v nement m'avait rempli d'un sentiment d'incertitude sur la destin e, et d'une r verie vague qui ne m'abandonnait pas. Je lisais de pr f rence dans les po tes ce qui rappelait la bri vet de la vie humaine.
