Recounts <strong>Karl Pearson</strong>'s extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds light on the inner life of science. In this book, a leading historian of... » 

Recounts Karl Pearson's extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds light on the inner life of science. In this book, a leading historian of modern science investigates the interior experience of one man's scientific life while placing it in a tapestry of social, political, and intellectual movements. «