Author: Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : Africa, German Southwest
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis GaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, German Southwest
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis GaltonPublisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"...the vast unexplored region before us will [not] yield its secrets to a single traveller, but rather [...] they will become known step by step through various successive discoveries." -Sir Francis Galton, The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa In The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1883), Sir Francis Galton describes an expedition he led to Southwest Africa in the 1850s. This expedition was a watershed event in the author's life. Because Galton was among the first to explore this South African territory, the effort earned him a Gold Medal from the Royal Geographical Society and launched his career as a scientist. This publication is a color replica of the original 1883 edition.
Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Life of Sir Francis Galton
Author: Nicholas W. GillhamPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195143655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This vivid biography of the father of eugenics is also a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era. 10 halftones & 26 line illustrations.
The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Biometric State
Author: Keith BreckenridgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107077842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
Hereditary Genius
Author: Sir Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
English Men of Science
Author: Francis GaltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429665105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This edition first published in 1970. Francis Galton has been honoured as the founder of biostatics and one of the creators of modern psychology. His principal aim was to establish a body of statistical knowledge about mental heredity which would result in a new pattern of behaviour for society. The relationship between outstanding men had led him to conclude that mental traits are inherited, and that an ideal society would take advantage of this "fact". In this particular work, which he termed a "Natural History of the English Men of Science of the present day", he examined at great length the antecedents, environment, education and hereditary features of the most prominent men of science in order to establish certain laws relating to heredity. It is a landmark in the transition from introspective to objective methods in biological and psychological research, and the author’s statistical, nonanecdotal approach was to prove immensely fruitful for the development of psychology. Indeed the questionnaire included in the work is probably the earliest in existence. As Professor Cowan points out in her introduction, historians as well as scientists intent upon a deeper understanding of the Victorian mind will find much of interest in this remarkable book.
The Art of Travel; Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
Author: Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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