Download or read book Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa written by Francis Galton and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1853 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...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.
Download or read book A Life of Sir Francis Galton written by Nicholas W. Gillham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid biography of the father of eugenics is also a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era. 10 halftones & 26 line illustrations.
Download or read book Biometric State written by Keith Breckenridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
Download or read book Hereditary Genius written by Sir Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Men of Science written by Francis Galton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Art of Travel Or Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Idea of Development in Africa written by Corrie Decker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.
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Download or read book A Life of Sir Francis Galton written by Nicholas Wright Gillham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 this end, 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 sixteen states had involuntary sterilization laws, and in Germany, where the goal of racial purity was pushed to its horrific limit in the "final solution." Galton himself, Gillham writes, would have been appalled by the extremes to which eugenics was carried. Here then is a vibrant biography of a remarkable scientist as well as a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era.
Download or read book English Men of Science written by Sir Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Machines as the Measure of Men written by Michael Adas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
