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Siméon-Denis Poisson

Mathematician; member of the Académie's 1835 commission

Dates: No dates given in the film's sources
Chapters: VII. Breaking the Stone

What the film says

Sat on the 1835 commission and disagreed with Double's objection to statistics in medicine.

Watch 34:53 in the film VII. Breaking the Stone

On the timeline

1835: Poisson, Dulong, Larrey and Double report to the Académie des sciences on Civiale's statistics. timeline
1837: Poisson publishes on the law of large numbers. probable timeline

Sources

Sources

Poisson, Dulong, Larrey et Double, Recherches de statistique sur l'affection calculeuse, par M. le docteur Civiale. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 1835;1:167-177 Primary
James Lind Library: Poisson, Dulong, Larrey et Double 1835 Museum or society
Tröhler 2020, J R Soc Med 113(9):360-366 Secondary