This selection omits several volumes of tables, tracts for computers and monographs on physical anthropology.<\/p>\n
Loki (1880) The New Werther<\/em>. London: C. Kegan Paul.<\/p>\n Through letters to his renounced beloved, Arthur describes the disappointments of philosophy, science, art and love until, like Goethe\u2019s Werther, he commits suicide. For discussion see Porter (2004, ch. 3)<\/a> and E. S. Pearson (1936, pp. 200-1) <\/a><\/p>\n [Anonymous] (1882) The Trinity. A Nineteenth Century Passion-Play, The Son; or, Victory of Love<\/em>. Cambridge: E. Johnson.<\/p>\n In the foreword to this retelling of the Christ story Pearson wrote \u201cModern science and modern culture are freeing us from the old theological shackles; let them take heed that in destroying a human divinity they do not forget a divine humanity.\u201d For discussion see Porter (2004, ch. 4)<\/a> and E. S. Pearson (1936, pp. 201ff) <\/a><\/p>\n Karl Pearson (ed.) (1885) The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences<\/em> by W. K. Clifford. London: Kegan Paul, Trench<\/p>\n The Exact Sciences<\/em> are mathematics, pure and applied. The book was re-issued in 1946 with a laudatory preface by Bertrand Russell who had read it when he was fifteen.<\/p>\n Karl Pearson (ed.) (1886\/93) A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials from Galilei to the Present Time<\/em> by I. Todhunter, Vols<\/em> I & II<\/em> (II in two parts). Cambridge: University Press.<\/p>\n Pearson wrote more than half of this enormous work. He kept to Todhunter\u2019s plan of summarising each contribution and the result is an encyclopedic treatise on the\u00a0 literature of elasticity organised chronologically rather than a history of science work of the modern kind. For discussion see Porter (2004, ch. 3)<\/a> and E. S. Pearson (1936, p. 209 ) <\/a><\/p>\n Karl Pearson (1888) The Ethic of Freethought<\/em>, London, T. Fisher Unwin Trench.<\/p>\n The first papers \u201cendeavour to formulate the opinions which a rational being of to-day may hold with regard to the physical and intellectual worlds.\u201d A second group \u201cregards one or two phases of past thought and life from the Freethinker\u2019s standpoint.\u201d The final group \u201cdeals with great race problems\u201d\u2014socialism and the woman\u2019s question. For discussion see Porter (2004, ch. 3)<\/a> and E. S. Pearson (1936, pp. 198-206) <\/a><\/p>\n Karl Pearson (1892) The Grammar of Science<\/em>, with further editions in 1900 and 1911. London: Walter Scott (1892) and A. & C. Black (1900 & 1911).<\/p>\n This positivist account of science was widely read in English and in translations. The second edition was enlarged to take account of Pearson\u2019s mathematical studies in evolution. The third edition was conceived on an even larger scale but only the first (Physical<\/em>) volume appeared. For the 1937 reissue in the Everyman<\/em> series E. S. Pearson returned to the chapter plan of 1892 but kept the wording of 1900; he also wrote an introduction. In 1991 Thoemmes published a reprint of the first edition with an introduction by Andrew Pyle. For discussion see Porter (2004, ch. 3)<\/a> and E. S. Pearson (1936, pp. 214-7)<\/a> and (1938, pp. 185-6)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Karl Pearson (1897) Chances of Death and Other Studies of Evolution<\/em>, 2 vols. London: Edward Arnold.<\/p>\n This contains both statistical and historical studies of evolution. The latter include reconstructions of prehistoric society based on the \u201cfossils\u201d of language and customs. Behind the long study of the \u201cGerman Passion-Play\u201d is the thought that the medi\u00e6val philosophy of life contained \u201csocial, economic, and \u00e6sthetic elements wanting in the civilisation of today.\u201d For discussion see Porter (2004, ch. 3)<\/a> and E. S. Pearson (1936, p. 225)<\/a> .<\/p>\n Karl Pearson (1901) National Life from the Standpoint of Science, with a second edition in 1905. London: A. & C. Black.<\/p>\n This gives Pearson\u2019s views on nations, socialism and eugenics: \u201cWe find that the law of survival of the fitter is true of mankind, but that the struggle is that of the gregarious animal. A community not knit together by strong social instincts by sympathy between man and man, and class and class cannot face the external contest\u2026\u201d In the second edition the original lecture was supplemented by data appendices<\/p>\n Karl Pearson (1914) Tables for Statisticians and Biometricians, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n The main purpose of these first tables was to assist in the fitting of the Pearson curves. More specialised volumes came later as well as a Part II in 1931. Much effort went into table-making and it was an activity Pearson rated highly: \u201cWhat the true statistician, the true physicist demands\u201d is \u201cthe conversion of algebraical results into tables;\u201d an “all-round mathematician” needs to be a \u201ccomputer.\u201d\u00a0 (Lectures on the History of Statistics, p. 245.) See E. S. Pearson (1938, p. 195)<\/a><\/p>\n Karl Pearson (1914\/24\/30) The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, Vols. I, II, IIIA & IIIB, Cambridge: University Press<\/p>\n This huge work is one of the most ambitious biographies of a scientist ever written. Available online at Gavan Tredoux\u2019s Galton website.<\/p>\n