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Essai Sur L'Application De L'Analyse a La Probabilite Des Decisions Rendues a La Pluralite Des Voix
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1785Best.-Nr. 169550Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1785. Calculating the wisdom of crowds First edition of Condorcet's pioneering application of probability theory to collective decision-making "the first large-scale attempt to apply mathematics to knowledge of human phenomena" DSB. Condorcet investigated the probability that the majority decision of an assembly or tribunal was correct and whether rational individual choices produce coherent collective decisions. While recognizing limitations and contradictions it is ultimately a defence of democratic decisions and the wisdom of crowds and a seminal work in social choice theory. "It is mainly to the Essai a ground-breaking investigation into the relationship between voting procedures and collective outcomes that Condorcet owes his modern standing as the founder of social choice. His theory of voting and political decision-making constitutes one of the most sustained elements to be found in the whole corpus of his writings" Williams pp. 207-8. Quarto 247 x 183 mm pp. 2 cxci 1 304. Contemporary mottled calf spine lettered and decorated in gilt marbled endpapers red edges. Slight rubbing ink splash to title page contents browned. A very good copy. David Williams Condorcet and Modernity 2004. unknown
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1785Best.-Nr. 66958Paris: De k'Imprimerie Royale 1785. The First Large-Scale Attempt to Apply Mathematics to Knowledge of Human Phenomena" CONDORCET Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat Marquis de. Essai sur l'application de l'analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1785. First edition. Quarto. 2 cxci 1 blank 304 pp. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary French mottled calf spine decorated in gilt with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers all edges red. First and last few pages browned at edges . gathering K is browned a Q and 2G is toned. Otherwise very good and very scarce. "Condorcet's most significant and fruitful endeavor was in a field entirely new at the time. The subject was one that departed from the natural sciences and mathematics but nevertheless showed the way toward a scientific comprehension of human phenomena taking the empirical approach of natural science as its inspiration and employing mathematics as its tool. Condorcet called this new science 'social mathematics.' It was apparently intended to comprise.a statistical description of society a theory of political economy inspired by the Physiocrats and a combinatorial theory of intellectual processes. The great work on the voting process published in 1785 is related to the latter. Condorcet there sought to construct a scheme for an electoral body the purpose of which would be to determine the truth about a given subject by the process of voting and in which each elector would have the same chance of voicing the truth.No doubt the results obtained in the Essai d'application de l'analyse were modest ones. 'In almost all cases' Condorcet said 'the results are in conformity with what simple reason would have dictated; but it is so easy to obscure reason by sophistry and vain subtleties that I should feel rewarded if I had only founded a single useful truth on a mathematical demonstration' Essai p. ii. One must nevertheless recognize in this work.the first large-scale attempt to apply mathematics to knowledge of human phenomena" D.S.B. Brunet VI col. 472. HBS 66958. $7500. De k'Imprimerie Royale unknown
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1785Best.-Nr. 66958Paris: De k'Imprimerie Royale 1785. The First Large-Scale Attempt to Apply Mathematics to Knowledge of Human Phenomena" CONDORCET Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat Marquis de. Essai sur l'application de l'analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1785. First edition. Quarto. 2 cxci 1 blank 304 pp. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary French mottled calf spine decorated in gilt with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers all edges red. First and last few pages browned at edges . gathering K is browned a Q and 2G is toned. Otherwise very good and very scarce. "Condorcet's most significant and fruitful endeavor was in a field entirely new at the time. The subject was one that departed from the natural sciences and mathematics but nevertheless showed the way toward a scientific comprehension of human phenomena taking the empirical approach of natural science as its inspiration and employing mathematics as its tool. Condorcet called this new science 'social mathematics.' It was apparently intended to comprise.a statistical description of society a theory of political economy inspired by the Physiocrats and a combinatorial theory of intellectual processes. The great work on the voting process published in 1785 is related to the latter. Condorcet there sought to construct a scheme for an electoral body the purpose of which would be to determine the truth about a given subject by the process of voting and in which each elector would have the same chance of voicing the truth.No doubt the results obtained in the Essai d'application de l'analyse were modest ones. 'In almost all cases' Condorcet said 'the results are in conformity with what simple reason would have dictated; but it is so easy to obscure reason by sophistry and vain subtleties that I should feel rewarded if I had only founded a single useful truth on a mathematical demonstration' Essai p. ii. One must nevertheless recognize in this work.the first large-scale attempt to apply mathematics to knowledge of human phenomena" D.S.B. Brunet VI col. 472. HBS 66958. $7500. De k'Imprimerie Royale unknown books
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1947Book is in excellent condition with red cloth HB covers and gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with age-toned paper. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 349 pages, contents include: Moral principle in nature, Moral conceptions of primitive peoples (dual nature of moral requirements among the savage tribes, Development of moral teachings -- ancient Greece, The renaissance, Moral teachings in the modern era, Cudworth, Cumberland, Spinoza, Locke, Clarke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Turgot , Condorcet, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, hegel, Schleiermacher, Bentham, Stuart, Schopenhauer, Victor Cousin, Jouffroy, etc.
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1792Best.-Nr. 1418507Limoges: Gueret; A.; François Dalesme 1792. Other. Broadside and Side-sewn pamphlet 14 pages. In Very Good condition. Broadside consists of three three sheets of paper pasted together vertically. Broadside has adhesive toning to boundary between sheets scattered light foxing a small closed tear to top titling legibility unaffected and light scuffing to edges. Pamphlet has light scuffing to margins of first page and rear page 1 has a black mark that penetrates to page 4 text legibility unimpacted and leaves are age-toned and have light foxing and light creasing throughout. Text in French. Shelved in room F. . One of the most pivotal documents of the French Revolution this broadside document explains the National Assembly's reasoning behind bringing an end to the constitutional monarchy suspending King Louis XVI and calling for the creation of the National Convention which declared France a Republic the following month. Both items here represent regional printings from the city of Limoges where a courier arrived three days after the suspension of Louis XVI in August 1792 to inform the city government of the news. Printers quickly got to work producing broadsides and pamphlets such as these so the public could read the text of the order. 1418507. Special Collections - Upstairs. Gueret; A.; François Dalesme unknown
1792Best.-Nr. 1418507Limoges: Gueret; A.; François Dalesme 1792. Other. Broadside and Side-sewn pamphlet 14 pages. In Very Good condition. Broadside consists of three three sheets of paper pasted together vertically. Broadside has adhesive toning to boundary between sheets scattered light foxing a small closed tear to top titling legibility unaffected and light scuffing to edges. Pamphlet has light scuffing to margins of first page and rear page 1 has a black mark that penetrates to page 4 text legibility unimpacted and leaves are age-toned and have light foxing and light creasing throughout. Text in French. Shelved in room F. . One of the most pivotal documents of the French Revolution this broadside document explains the National Assembly's reasoning behind bringing an end to the constitutional monarchy suspending King Louis XVI and calling for the creation of the National Convention which declared France a Republic the following month. Both items here represent regional printings from the city of Limoges where a courier arrived three days after the suspension of Louis XVI in August 1792 to inform the city government of the news. Printers quickly got to work producing broadsides and pamphlets such as these so the public could read the text of the order. 1418507. Special Collections - Upstairs. Gueret; A.; François Dalesme unknown books
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