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      English Men of Science book

      Their Nature and Nurture

      English Men of Science

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      English Men of Science book

      Their Nature and Nurture
      ByFrancis Galton
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1874
      eBook Published 13 December 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429020919
      Pages 296
      eBook ISBN 9780429020919
      Subjects Humanities
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      Galton, F. (1874). English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429020919

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter I|73 pages

      Antecedents

      chapter II|70 pages

      Qualities.

      chapter III|91 pages

      Origin of Taste for Science.

      chapter IV|26 pages

      Education.

      chapter |6 pages

      Appendix

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