Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis in notitiam rerumpublicarum orbis universi. Accedunt eiusdem dissertationes de statu Europae quibus omnium eius imperiorum iuxta et imperantium numerus, religionis item, litterarum, bellique ac pacis ratio, qualis nuper erat, designatur.

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4to, pp. [xvi], 370, [22]; title in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; some browning due to paper stock, a few light water stains, but a very good copy in contemporary vellum; upper joint partly split, boards slightly bowed; 'Gunnar Fabritius Norregaard 1903' inscribed to front free endpaper.First edition of a pioneering work of statistics and rare Americanum, by the philosopher and historian Johann Andreas Bose (1624-1674). Bose's crucial intuition as a student of human societies lies in his advocacy of interdisciplinary investigations. His work 'on all the states in the world' marshalls data and outlooks ranging from geography to economics and trade, politics, history, sciences, and religion, and includes several remarks about the age of discoveries, particularly noting the impact of the Europeans' encounter with America.The book is of considerable theoretical importance, as it sets out a specific status for the discipline of statistics within the realm of the human sciences. Bose 'analyzes the differences between the universality of politics (constitutional doctrine) and the singularities of history. Statistics, Bose reasons, is therefore not part of political philosophy, since it does not manifest itself in the discussion of constitutional law as applied to a given state. Nor can statistics be classed as a genus of history writing, which 'represents individual state actions with the details of time, space, social condition, character and other circumstances […] Instead, statistics bestows a "more general treatment" […] on the details of history. [It] represents the concerns of individual states "principally from a universal point of view and not tied to this or that point in time or these or those specific persons". In accordance with the famous formula from Aristotle's Poetics, which claims that poetry, in the medium of probability, brings the singularities of history closer to the universality of philosophy, statistics is poetical. Statistics is the poetry of the state' (R. Campe, The Game of probability. Literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist, Stanford University Press, 2013, p. 244).Not all of Bose's works passed muster with censorship. Yet his career at Jena was a success: after holding of the chair of history for seven years, counting Leibniz and Pufendorf among his most illustrious pupils, he became rector in the same University.Not in Sabin, not in Brunet. See Robert Horvath, 'La France en 1618 vue par un statisticien hongrois, Márton Szepsi Csombor', in: 'Population', 40e année, n°2, (1985) pp. 335-346. Language: Latin. N° de ref. del artículo H4475

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