The Stubbornness of Various Ways of Knowledge was not typically Dutch; the Statistical Mind in a Pre-Statistical Era.

Discusses the significance of the book "The Statistical Mind in a Pre-Statistical Era: The Netherlands 1750-1850" and shows how the case study provides insight into the world of statistics of that time. Dutch interaction with foreign developments; Approaches to statistics that continued to co-exist in the Netherlands after its liberation from French occupation in 1813; Main parts of statistical description of the Netherlands according to Simon Vissering, professor of statistics.