Commentary on Classics in Obesity 1. Quetelet: Quantitative Medicine

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in Obesity Medicine"The more advanced the sciences have become, the more they have tended to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a sort of center towards which they converge.We can judge of the perfection to which a science has come by the facility more or less great, which it may be approached by calculation".-HankinsThe Classic in Obesity selected for this issue of OBESITY RESEARCH is an extract f?om the work of Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet.I have chosen the introduction and first two chapters in part two from an 1842 English translation (24) of his 1835 classic entitled "Sur l'homme et le developpement de ses facultes, essai d'une physique sociale" (23).Publication of this book in 1835, at the age of 39, made Quetelet famous throughout Europe.A second edition of this volume was published in 1869 (18), five years before Quetelet's death.In summarizing the accomplishments of Quetelet, Frudenthal(8) says:

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