Francis Galton

The Art of Travel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1872. Lavishly illustrated. Everything you would need to mount an expedition into exotic territory in Victorian time. Great for research for historical novels. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Francis Galton (16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, 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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seltzer Books
• Seitenzahl: 1990
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781455438273
• Artikelnr.: 54036633

Autorenporträt

Among his many significant accomplishments, British scientist SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822-1911) was an explorer, a geographer, a statistician, and inventor of fingerprint identification. In addition to more than 300 scientific papers, he wrote the books Hereditary Genius (1914), Finger Prints (1893), Memories of My Life (1908), and others.