By Theodore M. Porter
Karl Pearson, founding father of sleek facts, got here to this box in terms of passionate early stories of philosophy and cultural background in addition to ether physics and graphical geometry. His religion in technological know-how grew out of a deeply ethical quest, mirrored additionally in his socialism and his efforts to discover a brand new foundation for kin among women and men. This biography recounts Pearson's remarkable highbrow event and sheds new mild at the internal lifetime of science.
Theodore Porter's intensely own portrait of Pearson extends from non secular problem and sexual tensions to metaphysical or even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile cause with enthusiasm and to accomplish the impersonal point of view of technological know-how with no sacrificing complicated individuality. whilst he longed to adventure nature without delay and in detail, he pointed out technology with renunciation and positivistic detachment. Porter unearths a turning element in Pearson's occupation, the place his humanistic pursuits gave strategy to statistical ones, in his Grammar of Science (1892), within which he tried to set up medical approach because the ethical academic foundation for a refashioned culture.
during this unique and fascinating booklet, a number one historian of recent technology investigates the inner event of 1 man's clinical lifestyles whereas putting it in a wealthy tapestry of social, political, and highbrow movements.
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