...Christine Von Oertzen This essay argues that the explosion of visual graphics in nineteenth-century population statistics was closely linked to a shift in statistical epistemologies and practices of data collection. Taking German census statistics as a case in point, I illuminate concepts...

... of the making of physics as a discipline, which consider the canonical role of textbooks in disciplinary formation beyond the Kuhnian paradigm. KEY WORDS: nineteenth century, physics, discipline, unification, France, England, textbooks, pedagogy . . . historians who have aimed to write the history...