Author: Sir Francis Galton
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Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Hereditary Genius
Author: Sir Francis Galton
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Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760
Author: Richard Pococke
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Natural Inheritance
Author: Francis Galton
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Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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English Men of Science
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429665105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429665105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
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.
The Comic History of Rome
Author: Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Travels ... Through Egypt ...
Author: Richard Pococke
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia
Author: Isaac Newton
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Category : Curves, Plane
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : Curves, Plane
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The System Of The World
Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446440443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 917
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Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle. The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with 'The Pretender' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline. Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences. Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson's hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery and change, the Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446440443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle. The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with 'The Pretender' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline. Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences. Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson's hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery and change, the Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.
Industrial Instruction on the Continent
Author: Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair
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Category : Business and education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Business and education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV
Author: Archibald Alison
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Languages : en
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