| Description | Pearson's manuscript drafts and research notes for lectures 1 to 6 on the history of statistics, which would later be published as chapters 1 to 3 in Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries Against the Changing Background of Intellectual, Scientific and Religious Thought.
Includes accounts of the life and works of John Graunt, Sir William Petty, Edward Chamberlayne, Caspar Neumann and the English school of political arithmeticians.
Also included are library tickets from the British Museum and University College London. |