Theodore M. Porter

A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification

An essential work on the origins of statistics

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity

Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities...

Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest...