The Education of Henry Adams · Character
Karl Pearson
English mathematician and biometrician.
minor
Also known as Pearson
First appearance: XXXI: The Grammar of Science (1903)
Karl Pearson shows up with force in XXXI: The Grammar of Science (1903). The page is where that presence becomes real.
Author of 'The Grammar of Science', whose radical assertion that chaos is all science can logically assert of the supersensuous marks a decisive break from nineteenth-century…
Karl Pearson first appears in 0033 xxxi the grammar of science 1903.
In XXXI: The Grammar of Science (1903): Author of 'The Grammar of Science', whose radical assertion that chaos is all science can logically assert of the supersensuous marks a decisive break from nineteenth-century scientific orthodoxy.
Later, in A Law of Acceleration (1904): Mentioned for his notions of the universe that would have halted earlier science if taken seriously.
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