Francis Galton

Life History Album

Table and Charts for Recording the Development of Body and Mind from Childhood Upwards, with Introductory Remarks

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1902, is aimed at helping the reader to anticipate and avoid hereditary physical, mental and other health problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781107632141
• ISBN-10: 1107632145
• Artikelnr.: 37803324

Autorenporträt

Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, pyschometrician, statistician and founder of the science of eugenics. He was knighted in 1909.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introductory remarks
Genealogy
Description of the child at birth
Tables: Life and medical history, photographs
Life and medical history, anthropological observations, photographs
Records of wife (or husband)
Records of children
Appendix. Tests of vision
Charts.