| Description | Pearson's manuscript drafts and research notes for lectures on the history of statistics, which would later be published as chapter 8 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 the Bernoulli Family, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Sir Isaac Newton, Colin MacLaurin and Leonhard Euler.
Also includes letters regarding Pearson's research from the Royal Society, Baron Fitzmaurice and the Earl of Kerry. |