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man of science、天才、徳

19世紀のman of scienceにおける努力、徳、および天才について。 The virtues of men of science could assume heroic proportions in biographical writing. Tyndall’s life of Michael Faraday extolled the sacrifices made for truth, the purity of pur…

Farr, 1860 "No one mind can marshall them all." 

"the field of statistics is immense. Its facts are innumerable, and the number of their possible combinations approaches the infinite. No one mind can marshall them all." (Farr 1860: 9)[cited in Goldman 2019] 書誌情報 Farr, William, 1860, …