Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary
Contributors: Howard Wainer (Introduction); Ian Spence (Introduction)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521855549
Subjects: History of science; Probability & statistics; Reference works; Sociology; Early works to 1800; Business & Economics; Probability & Statistics - General; Business/Economics; International - Economics; Great Britain; Statistics; Mathematics / Statistics; 18th century; Commerce; History
First sentence: Sometime in 1787, just two years before France was plunged into revolution and chaos, the Count of Vergennes delivered a package to the royal court of France for the attention of the king.