Theodore M. Porter
（2004年刊行，Princeton University Press，Princeton, x+342 pp., ISBN:0691126356 [pbk] → 版元ページ）
2004年にハードカバー版として出た本のペーパーバック版（2006年）．何がグッド・タイミングだったかといえば，ピアソンが今で言う「統計グラフィクス」の founder に当たるということが本書に書かれていたから．InterCommunication 原稿では，系統学と統計学における「図形言語」（系統樹，グラフ，ネットワーク）をテーマにしていたので，この本がたまたまいいタイミングでやってきてくれたおかげで，初期の数理統計学における“グラフィクス”の扱われ方がよくわかった．Edward R. Tufte のグラフィクス本とのつながりについての記述を改訂することもできた．
目次をざっと見た感じでは，「統計学者カール・ピアソン」が登場するのは，本書後半の第7章以降のようだ．しかし，“Making-of”の部分にこそおもしろみがあるはずなので，きっと前半も捨てがたし．
【目次】
Preface and Acknowledgments viiChapter One — Introduction : An Improbable Personage 1
Teleology and Purpose : Historical Implications 4
The Significance of a Life 6
The Personal and the Impersonal 9Chapter Two — Lehrjahr of a Poetic Wrangler 13
Family Matters 15
An Earnest Child 20
At King's College, Cambridge 24
Religious Doubts, and Life Made Fiction 27
A Philosophical Wrangler 30
The Mathematical Tripos 39Chapter Three — Apostle of Renunciation : A New Werther 43
Pearsonian Fictions 45
Poetic Effusion and Truth 53
Sham, Superficiality, and Detachment 59
Objective Spirit 67Chapter Four — Pearson's Progress : A Nineteenth-Century Passion Play 69
Not Quite a Catholic 70
Socialism 73
The Poet as Schwärmer : Robert Hamerling 79
Life as a Passion Play 84Chapter Five — Cultural Historian in a Political Age 91
Historical Choices 93
Lectures on Cultural History 96
Historical Socialism 105
Objectivity, Faith, and History 112
Faith and Ritual : Medieval Passion Plays 118
The Fate of a Renegade Cultural Historian 123Chapter Six — Intellectual Love and the Woman Question 125
Sensuality and Prostitution 126
Friends Not Lovers 131
Love's Contradictions? Pearson and Olive Schreiner 141
Historical Research on Women 150
Marriage, Egoism, and the Doll's House 161
Conclusion : Women and the Conquest of Self 175Chapter Seven — Ether Squirts and the Inaccessibility of Nature 178
Ethereal Physics 179
Temptation, Renunciation,Positivism 192
The Universe as Mental Construct 198
The Alienated Mind 204
The Grammar of Assent and the Grammar of Science 208
The Statistical Grammar 211Chapter Eight — Scientific Education and Graphical Statistics 215
Forming the Efficient Citizen 216
A Grammar for the Modern Age 220
Mathematics and Engineers 225
The Geometry of Statistics 235
Inspection and Analysis 239Chapter Nine — The Statistical Reformation 249
Statistics as Curve Fitting 252
The Science and Philosophy of Correlation 257
Data and Calculations 261
The Statistician Embattled 266
Eugenics, Evolution, and Statistics 278
The Aristocracy of Science 286Chapter Ten — Epilogue : Composing a Life 297
The Absence of Autobiography 300
The Form of a Life 305
Karl Pearson : A Tragedy? 312
Bibliography 315
Index 329
