Are Statistics Only Made of Data?: Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries (Methodos Series, 20)

Foreword
	The Peculiar Meanings of Data
Contents
List of Figures
List of Table
Chapter 1: Considering Data: Critique and Method
	1.1 Statistics and Data: Two Avatars of Numerical Abstraction
	1.2 Data from Euclid of Alexandria to Norbert Wiener
	1.3 From Circulation to Know-How and Presupposition
	References
Chapter 2: Data Arithmetic, Ratios and Mechanical Reasoning in the 17th and 18th Centuries
	2.1 Working Out Data in the 17th Century
	2.2 A Modern Starting Point: The Liber Abbaci of Leonardo of Pisa
	2.3 An Obscurity in Euclid´s Elements and Its Consequence
	2.4 Approximations and Mechanical Reasoning
	2.5 The Legend of Maritime insurance at the Beginnings of the Classical Calculation of Probabilities
	2.6 The Legendary Meeting of Political Arithmetic and Probabilities
	2.7 Conclusion. The Historical Corroboration of Ratios
	References
Chapter 3: Analytical Probability, Averages and Data Distributions in the 19th Century
	3.1 Working Out Data in the 19th Century
	3.2 A Legacy of the 18th Century
	3.3 The Average: From Science to Mysticism
	3.4 Averaging the World
	3.5 Know-How and Presuppositions from the Quetelesian World
	3.6 Cracks on the Bell
	3.7 Conclusion: The Historical Corroboration of Averages
	References
Chapter 4: Idols, Paradigms and Specters in Data Sciences
	4.1 The Inebriation of Abstraction and Its Misdeeds
	4.2 From Know How to Presuppositions and Idols
	4.3 Living in a Scientific World Cleared from Idols
	References
Index