Victorians and numbers statistics and society in nineteenth century Britain Goldman, Lawrence 1957- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2022 2022 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (lxiii, 371 pages). A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration, and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. Prologue : Statistics at the zenith : the International Statistical Congress, London 1860 -- Political arithmetic and statistics 1660-1840. Before the Victorians -- The origins of the statistical movement 1825-1835. Cambridge and London : the Cambridge network and the Statistical Society of London -- Manchester : the Manchester Statistical Society : industry, sectarianism and reform -- Clerkenwell : the London Statistical Society and artisan statisticians, 1825-30 -- Intellectual influences. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace : statistics and computing -- Richard Jones and William Whewell : statistics, induction, and political economy -- Adolphe Quetelet : social physics, determinism, and 'the average man' -- Alexander von Humboldt : Humboldtian science, natural theology, and the unity of nature -- The opposition to statistics : Disraeli, Dickens, Ruskin, and Carlyle -- Statistics at mid-century. Mapping and defining British statistics -- Buckle's fatal History : making statistics popular -- Medicine and statistics at mid-century -- Liberal decline and reinvention. The International Statistical Congress 1851-78 : conservative nationalism versus liberal internationalism -- The end of the statistical movement : Francis Galton, variation and eugenics -- Social statistics in the 1880s : the Industrial Remuneration Conference, London 1885 -- Conclusion : From statistics to big data 1822-2022. Specialized. specialized Lawrence Goldman. This edition also issued in print: 2022. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- Statistics Great Britain History 19th century Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle Statistique Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle Intellectual life Statistics Great Britain 1800-1899 fast HA19 .G65 2022 001.422094109034 Victorians and numbers Goldman, Lawrence, 1957- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 First edition. (OCoLC)1273675960 9780191943003 0191943002 9780192663412 0192663410 9780192847744 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/38774 STBDS 211209 20260318163934.9 in00005696776 eng