The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers
have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations
and structure of government, in marketing, and in many other
aspects of daily life. Consulting and collecting numbers has been a
feature of human affairs since antiquity taxes, head counts for
military service but not until the Scientific Revolution in the
twelfth century did social numbers such as births, deaths, and
marriages begin to be analyzed. Cohen shines a new light on
familiar figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and
Charles Dickens; and he reveals Florence Nightingale to be a
passionate statistician. Cohen has left us with an engaging and
accessible history of numbers, an appreciation of the essential
nature of statistics."
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