Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences
Published by D. Appleton & Co. (New York), 1870
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.Best Books And Antiques
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Condition: Used - Fair
£ 155.58
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HC/Brown leather boards. Appleton First. This books is DIS-BOUND. Yes it can be repaired, if buyer wants to: dis-bound is 4 sections: Cover board, at title page, and at pp 138-139. ---However, this book is RARE and VALUABLE and at a good rate. Most goes throughout auctions, any of Galton's books. "In Hereditary Genius, his best-known and most influential book, Galton investigated the heritability of scholarly, artistic and athletic talent, using the records of notable families as data. He concluded that such talents have a high degree of heritability, and that people vary in the kind of degree of hereditary abilities they possess. He applied the Gaussian or normal curve to the range of human abilities, expanding upon Quetelet's observation that certain measurable human characteristics are distributed like the error function, and thus gave a new importance to biological and psychological variation, which had previously been regarded as unimportant" (Haskell Norman Catalogue No. 864).". 'Galton, starting from the organic relationship between parent to offspring, passed to the idea of a coefficient measuring the correlation of all the pairs of organs, and thence to the 'organic' relationship of all sorts of factors. Galton realized as fully as any of us now the width of application that would open up to the new calculus of correlation. His advances were chiefly hampered by the restriction of his data and the need for organized observers and computers' (Karl Pearson in Person & Kendall, Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, Vol, I, pp. 200-1). --- For Interested buyer, there are some Photos Included. Interior: fep has Interesting Latin Bookplate. Ffep, has prev. owners name inscription. Prev. owners name also written on half-title page. Besides it's flaw in binding, it has CLEAN TEXT, no further markings. A Complex book. Fold Out table in rear, facing page 376p. before Appendix, "Alphabetical List of the Letters and the Relationships to which they Correspond." Appendix [377-383pp] + Index. Octavo. --B.R. Box 82. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences
- Author
- Francis Galton, F. R. S. etc.
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Co. (New York)
- Publication year
- 1870
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
Best Books And Antiques
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