A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy.

Herschel, John Frederick William

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“…An inset quotation from J. W. Herschel (1831) in a box at the top right sums up Guerry's anticipation of the utility of his method, and a caveat: "Causes will very frequently become obvious by a mere arrangement of our facts in the order of intensity, though not of necessity, because counteracting or modifying causes may be at the same time in action. "…”

Section: Graphic Comparisonsmentioning

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A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis

Friendly¹

2007

Statist. Sci.

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André-Michel Guerry's (1833) Essai sur la Statistique Morale de la France was one of the foundation studies of modern social science. Guerry assembled data on crimes, suicides, literacy and other "moral statistics," and used tables and maps to analyze a variety of social issues in perhaps the first comprehensive study relating such variables. Indeed, the Essai may be considered the book that launched modern empirical social science, for the questions raised and the methods Guerry developed to try to answer them.Guerry's data consist of a large number of variables recorded for each of the départments of France in the 1820-1830s and therefore involve both multivariate and geographical aspects. In addition to historical interest, these data provide the opportunity to ask how modern methods of statistics, graphics, thematic cartography and geovisualization can shed further light on the questions he raised. We present a variety of methods attempting to address Guerry's challenge for multivariate spatial statistics.

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A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis

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2007

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“…Herschel wrote that the "liberty of speculation which we possess in the domain of theory is not like the wild licence of the slave broke loose from his fetters, but rather like that of the freeman who has learned the lesson of self-restraint in the school of just subordination". 36 Two years later, in his Treatise on Astronomy, Herschel expressed similar, widely held ideas about the transcendent quality of astronomical theory:…”

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Indigenous Knowledge and Contact Zones: The Case of the Cold Bokkeveld Meteorite, Cape Colony, 1838

Musselman¹

2009

Itinerario

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Historians of science and technology—with much assistance from the work of world historians, environmental historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—have begun to develop some promising scholarly apparatus for decentring European science in world history. But we are still a long way away from developing a comprehensive, accessible frame in which European science is simply one (albeit very successful) way of conceptualising the natural world.

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“…If this assumption held, then investigators could discover causes operative in the past by identifying the same kind of causes operating in the present. To do so required demonstrating that a cause existed in nature, was competent to produce a variety of effects, and was responsible for producing particular effects (Herschel, 1987(Herschel, [1830).…”

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Evolution evolving? Reflections on big questions

Love¹

2019

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John Bonner managed a long and productive career that balanced specialized inquiry into cellular slime molds with general investigations of big questions in evolutionary biology, such as the origins of multicellular development and the evolution of complexity. This commentary engages with his final paper (“The evolution of evolution”), which argues that the evolutionary process has changed through the history of life. In particular, Bonner emphasizes the possibility that natural selection plays different roles at different size scales. I identify some underlying assumptions in his argument and evaluate its cogency to both foster future discussion and emulate the intellectual example set by Bonner over a lifetime. This endeavor is important beyond Bonner's own theoretical disposition because similar issues are visible in controversies about the possibility of an extended evolutionary synthesis.

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A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy.

Cited by 130 publications

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A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis

A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis

Indigenous Knowledge and Contact Zones: The Case of the Cold Bokkeveld Meteorite, Cape Colony, 1838

Evolution evolving? Reflections on big questions

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