The use of descriptive and summary statistics has an extensive history and, indeed, the simple tabulation of populations and of economic data was the first way in which the topic of statistics appeared.

In the early 20th century, ecology transitioned from a more descriptive form of natural history to a more analytical form of scientific natural history.

* Abendana, Jacob in The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, New York ; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901 – 06, volume 1, p 53.

From this basic distinction, post-structuralist studies often emphasize history to analyze descriptive concepts.

Strabo is most famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era.

:: The History and Technology of Brunei Darussalam's Petroleum Gallery: The state's main industry is presented in this gallery, covering descriptive narratives on the origin and formation of oil, process of drilling, refining, the history of the petroleum industry in Brunei and a map depicting current oil fields.

There are two types of military history, although almost all texts have elements of both: descriptive history that serves to chronicle conflicts without offering any statements about the causes, nature of conduct, the ending and effects of a conflict ; and analytical history that seeks to offer statements about the causes, nature, ending and aftermath of conflicts as a means of deriving knowledge and understanding of conflicts as a whole, and prevent repetition of mistakes in future, to suggest better concepts or methods in employing forces, or to advocate the need for new technology.

It was a principle that Jung felt gave conclusive evidence for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlies the whole of human experience and history — social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual.

For this vivid descriptive history of abbeys and bishoprics, dwelling upon the lives of the English prelates saints, notably the learned wonder-working Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury, William travelled widely in England.

Studies of nature could in turn be divided, with natural history being the descriptive counterpart to natural philosophy which was the analytical study of nature.

A common thread in many definitions of natural history is the inclusion of a descriptive component, as seen in a recent definition by H. W.

Analytical bibliography, the cornerstone of descriptive bibliography, investigates the printing and all physical features of a book that yield evidence establishing a book's history and transmission ( Feather 10 ).

Fundamentally, analytical bibliography is concerned with objective, physical analysis and history of a book while descriptive bibliography employs all data that analytical bibliography furnishes and then codifies it with a view to identifying the ideal copy or form of a book that most nearly represents the printer ’ s initial conception and intention in printing.

This museum has more than 45 aerospace vehicles along with companion descriptive displays concerning the history of flight.

Academic scholars of Judaism have also engaged in descriptive Jewish ethics, the study of Jewish moral practices and theory, which is situated more in the disciplines of history and the social sciences than in ethics proper ( see Newman 1998 ).

Natural history referred to the descriptive aspects of biology, though it also included mineralogy and other non-biological fields ; from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, the unifying framework of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being.

Henry followed his father's interest in natural history and wrote several papers on descriptive conchology.

Natural philosophy was distinguished from the other precursor of modern science, natural history, in that the former involved reasoning and explanations about nature ( and after Galileo, quantitative reasoning ), whereas the latter was essentially qualitative and descriptive.

Onomastics, the study of proper names and their origins, includes: anthroponymy, concerned with human names, including personal names, surnames and nicknames ; toponymy the study of place names ; and etymology, the derivation, history and use of names as revealed through comparative and descriptive linguistics.

While still trading as a jeweller and goldsmith, in 1801 he published a descriptive catalogue of the works of art, armoury, objects of natural history, and other curiosities in the collection, some of which had been brought back by members of James Cook's expeditions.

* A descriptive catalogue of the exhibition, entitled Ancient and Modern Mexico: containing a panoramic view of the present city, specimens of the natural history of New Spain ... at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

His other writings include a descriptive work on Egypt ( Aegypten in Wort und Bild, 2nd ed., 1880 ), a guide to Egypt ( 1886 ) and a life ( 1885 ) of his old teacher, the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius.

Hecataeus described the countries and inhabitants of the known world, the account of Egypt being particularly comprehensive ; the descriptive matter was accompanied by a map, based upon Anaximander ’ s map of the earth, which he corrected and enlarged.

In 1862 he accompanied Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Egypt and Abyssinia, and on his return settled at Coburg, where he wrote a number of novels descriptive of the scenes he had visited.

His two volumes descriptive of a trip round the world in 1875-1876, entitled From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn ( 1876 ) and From Egypt to Japan ( 1877 ), are almost classic in their way, and have passed through more than twenty editions.

von Kittlitz, a member of the Litke expedition made a further descriptive account, including the offshore ruins of Nan Madol, and the two reports together provided the first real knowledge of Pohnpei.

According to a descriptive placard provided for tourists there, " The property remained in the ownership of Shakespeare's direct descendants until 1670, when his granddaughter, Elizabeth Barnard, died.

Ovid in his Metamorphoses provided a descriptive interlude when Theseus is the guest of Achelous, waiting for the river's raging flood to subside: " He entered the dark building, made of spongy pumice, and rough tuff.

Starting May 30, 2004, the US Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) Trademark Electronic Business Center's TDR ( Text Document Retrieval ) online record showed a USPTO " Office Action " on application # 78319880, summarily refusing registration on grounds that the proposed mark " merely describes the subject matter and nature of the applicant's goods and / or services ", and also because publishing a journal is not per se a " service " within the meaning of the term in trademark law ( SSC having not provided descriptive evidence or arguments to counter that presumption ).

The title, a Smiths song title, was chosen because “ It's clearly descriptive of the book, but it's also a little salute to those points in my life when I was melting down to soundtracks provided by British gloom rockers .”

The theoretical basis for descriptive geometry is provided by planar geometric projections.

The elements are more descriptive of the size, shape and orientation of an orbit, and the elements may be used to quickly and easily estimate the object's state at any arbitrary time provided its motion is accurately modeled by the two-body problem with only small perturbations.

Louis Claude Richard provided us in 1817 with the descriptive terminology of the orchids.

Anti-abortion advocates frequently targeted the CHN with angry mail ; the CHN, through its affiliates, contained health information that covered all topics in a politically neutral fashion meaning that information on abortion but also information on adoption and maternal health information was equally available ( online information did not counsel readers to pursue options, only descriptive and scientific information was provided ).

Early food webs were topological ; they were descriptive and provided a nonquantitative picture of consumers, resources and the links between them.

Cryptic crossword puzzles frequently use anagrammatic clues, usually indicating that they are anagrams by the inclusion of a descriptive term like " confused " or " in disarray ".

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.

In 1709 he became professor of botany and medicine, and in that capacity he did good service, not only to his own university, but also to botanical science, by his improvements and additions to the botanic garden of Leiden, and by the publication of numerous works descriptive of new species of plants.

The descriptive term for the smallest living biological structure was coined by Robert Hooke in a book he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms monks lived in .< ref name =" Hooke ">"< cite >...

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

A descriptive definition can be shown to be " right " or " wrong " by comparison to general usage, but a stipulative definition can only be disproved by showing a logical contradiction.

A precising definition extends the descriptive dictionary definition ( lexical definition ) of a term for a specific purpose by including additional criteria that narrow down the set of things meeting the definition.

A key aim was to base categorization on colloquial English descriptive language ( which would be easier to use by federal administrative offices ), rather than assumptions of etiology, although its categorical approach assumed each particular pattern of symptoms in a category reflected a particular underlying pathology ( an approach described as " neo-Kraepelinian ").

Some philosophers rely on descriptive ethics and choices made and unchallenged by a society or culture to derive categories, which typically vary by context.

This is a purely descriptive approach to what we mean by " natural language " without attempting to address its emergence.

In his professorial doctoral dissertation, On the Concept of Number ( 1886 ) and in his Philosophy of Arithmetic ( 1891 ), Husserl sought, by employing Brentano's descriptive psychology, to define the natural numbers in a way that advanced the methods and techniques of Karl Weierstrass, Richard Dedekind, Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, and other contemporary mathematicians.

However, it was the informal descriptive of Imperator (" commander ") that became the title increasingly favored by his successors.

Microfossil is a descriptive term applied to fossilized plants and animals whose size is just at or below the level at which the fossil can be analyzed by the naked eye.

Galileo, however, felt that the descriptive content of the technical disciplines warranted philosophical interest, particularly because mathematical analysis of astronomical observations — notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus concerning the relative motions of the Sun, Earth, Moon, and planets — indicated that philosophers ' statements about the nature of the universe could be shown to be in error.

In Labrador, the language is called Inuttut or, often in official documents, by the more descriptive name Labradorimiutut.

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Moreover, a useful economic theory should be judged not by its descriptive realism but by its simplicity and fruitfulness as an engine of prediction.

The name is descriptive, adopted by the British government during the colonial era to indicate where it lay in relation to Rupert's Land.

In early systems an order including the grass family did not go by the name Poales but by a descriptive botanical name such as Graminales in the Engler system ( update of 1964 ) and in the Hutchinson system ( first edition, first volume, 1926 ), Glumiflorae in the Wettstein system ( last revised 1935 ) or Glumaceae in the Bentham & Hooker system ( third volume, 1883 ).