Quantitative Zoology Like his contemporary

Like his contemporary

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It is completely non-technical

This volume illustrates the ways in which efforts to transmute metals — such as the search for the ever-elusive philosopher's stone — stimulated experimentation with hitherto untried substances

Quantitative Zoology Like his contemporaryThis classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." Florida Scientist. Unabridged republication of the edition