Excerpt from Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician During these years of educational activity, an import ant series of events had taken place. Soon after his election to the Academy (1820) Quetelet began arousing interest in favor of an astronomical observatory. He made friends for the project on every hand, secured resolutions from the learned societies of Belgium and personally won the support of the minister of public in struction, M. Falck. Quetelet himself, having no ex perience with the methods and instruments of practical astronomy, was sent to Paris in December, 1823, at the expense of the state. He was kindly received at the Paris observatory by Arago and Bouvard, the latter of whom took special interest in instructing him in the knowledge of practical astronomy.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.