Narrative Of An Explorer In Tropical South Africa : Being An Account Of A Visit To Damaraland In 1851 with a new map and an appendix, bringing up the history of Damaraland to a recent date Together with a Biographical Introduction by the Editor. Also Vacation Tours in 1860 and 1861, by George Grove, D.C.L., Francis Galton, F.R.S., and W. G. Clark, M.A.
320 pp. + 4 pp publishers catalogue at the rear. Illustrated with line drawings. Collated complete.
The Minerva Library Of Famous Books, edited by G. T. Bettany.
This edition contains the preface to the first edition, as well as a new preface by the author, especially for this edition. Olive cloth boards with black and gilt titles - Pebbled cloth & Skivertex. Recased with repairs and new end-papers.Corners bumped.
The following information is taken from Wikipedia :
"Sir Francis Galton FRS (16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.
Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.
He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the very term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture." His book, Hereditary Genius (1869), was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness.As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology as well as devising a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science.
As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of short-term climatic phenomena on a European scale. He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability".
320 pp. + 4 pp publishers catalogue at the rear. Illustrated with line drawings. Collated complete.
The Minerva Library Of Famous Books, edited by G. T. Bettany.
This edition contains the preface to the first edition, as well as a new preface by the author, especially for this edition. Olive cloth boards with black and gilt titles - Pebbled cloth & Skivertex. Recased with repairs and new end-papers.Corners bumped.
The following information is taken from Wikipedia :
"Sir Francis Galton FRS (16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.
Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.
He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the very term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture." His book, Hereditary Genius (1869), was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness.As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology as well as devising a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science.
As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of short-term climatic phenomena on a European scale. He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability".
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- Country: South Africa
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