Numbers in the Bible: the sin of King David
Consequences of David's sin
New worlds based on numbers
Galileo and the laws of motion
Numbers in the life sciences: does the blood circulate?
A first exercise in demography: how many people can the Earth support?
Sir William Petty and political arithmetic
Numerology and mystic philosophy: scientists at play with numbers
What's in a name? : converting names into numbers
A crusader against numerological superstitions
Numbers in the age of reason
Hutcheson's moral arithmetic
Hale's numerical plant and animal science
Thomas Jefferson: a life regulated by numbers
Benjamin Franklin and numbers
Franklin on numbers and smallpox
A concern with numbers in France: Lavoisier's essay on political arithmetic
Sir John Sinclair's census of Scotland
Louis and the numerical method
New uses for numbers: innovations by Condorcet and Laplace
Guerry's studies of crime
Statistics reaches maturity: the age of Quetelet
Numbers, number science, and Joyce's Ulysses
Quetelet's world of numbers
The reliability of statistics
Comte versus Quetelet: social physics, or sociology?
What did Quetelet accomplish?
The Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything
Facts and figures: the message of Hard times
Sanitary reform: the evidence of the numbers
A passion for statistics.
