ISBN10: 0195143655, ISBN13: 9780195143652, [publisher: New York. Oxford University Press Inc.] Hardcover First Edition New York. Oxford University Press Inc. 2001. First Edition/First Printing (1 included in full number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo. 6.5” x 9.3“. ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 357 pp and copious notes. Quarter bound black cloth over sunshine yellow boards with silver titles to the spine. Tiny push to the spine head. No other wear. Maps, diagrams, sketches and photographs in the text. Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, the inventor of regression and correlation analysis in statistics, and the founder of the eugenics movement. Now, Nicholas Gillham paints an engaging portrait of this Victorian polymath. The dust jacket will be protected with an inert acetate protective sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is ...
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Hardback. New. A cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton was an African explorer, the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, a statistician, and the founder of the eugenics movement. This text is a portrait of this Victorian polymath. ISBN 0195143655 9780195143652 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0195143655, ISBN13: 9780195143652, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0195143655, ISBN13: 9780195143652, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover. Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, the inventor of regression and correlation analysis in statistics, and the founder of the eugenics movement. Now, Nicholas Gillham paints an engaging portrait of this Victorian polymath.The book traces Galton's ancestry (he was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin and the cousin of Charles Darwin), upbringing, training as a medical apprentice, and experience as a Cambridge undergraduate.It recounts in colorful detail Galton's adventures as leader of his own expedition in Namibia. Darwin was always a strong influence on his cousin and a turning point in Galton's life was the publication of the Origin of Species. Thereafter, Galton devoted most of his life to human heredity, using then novel methods such as pedigree analysis and twin studies to argue that talent and character were inherited and that humans could be selectively bred to enhance these qualities. To thisend, he founded the eugenics movement which rapidly gained momentum early in the last century. After Galton's death, however, eugenics took a more sinister path, as in the United States, where by 1913 ...
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ISBN10: 0195143655, ISBN13: 9780195143652, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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