Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics in the 1830s

• 1 January 1993
• journal article
• Published by University of Chicago Press in Critical Inquiry
• Vol. 19  (2) , 256-276
• https://doi.org/10.1086/448674

Abstract

Keywords

• FIGURES OF ARITHMETIC
• FIGURES OF SPEECH
• DISCOURSE OF STATISTICS
• STATISTICS IN THE 1830S