1892 1st Edtn FINGER PRINTS By Francis Galton Illus. Good Science Hardcover - 1892

London: MacMillan & Co, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Rubbing and bumping to boards, some soiling, text block firm. Previous owner inscription blank page before half-title. Binding firm. Pages clean. Please see photos as part of condition report 1892 1st Edition , FINGER PRINTS By Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician and a proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics, and scientific racism. He was knighted in 1909. Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies. He was a pioneer of eugenics, coining the term itself in 1883, and also coined the phrase "nature versus nurture". His book Hereditary Genius (1869) was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness. As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology, as well as the lexical hypothesis of personality. He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: MacMillan & Co, London octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 216 ISBN: SKU: BTETM0002278 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg