| Description | Pearson's manuscript drafts of six lectures on the history of statistics, plus research notes. The drafts have been annotated in an unknown hand.
Lecture I.
Notes between lectures I and II. Annotated by E Pearson "Original lecture II pp. 1-4 - then only notes, mostly incorporated in new 2nd lecture."
Lecture IV.
Notes inserted after pp 21.
Notes on Gottfried Achenwall, Hermann Conring and Thurmann, used for new 2nd lecture.
New 2nd lecture, incorporating some of the notes behing the original lecture II.
Lecture III: The English School of Political Arithmeticians.
Lecture on Graunt for Greenwood.
Lecture V: On Graunt's Natural and Political Observations.
Lecture VI. Sir William Petty.
Petty's Treatise on Taxes, 1662.
Casper Neumann and Halley. |