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MEASURE FOR MEASURE.(Book Review)
In the eighteen-eighties, residents of cities across Britain might have noticed an aged, bald, bewhiskered gentleman sedulously eying every girl he passed on the street while manipulating something in his pocket. What they were seeing was not lechery in action but science. Concealed in the man's pocket was a device he called a "pricker," which consisted of a needle mounted on a thimble and a cross-shaped piece of paper. By pricking holes in different parts of the paper, he could surreptitiously record his rating of a female passerby's appearance, on a scale ranging from attractive to repellent. After many months of wielding his pricker and tallying the results, he drew a ...
- The first eugenicist: was Francis Galton wrong to want to improve the human...
- Magazine article from: Reason Silber, Kenneth July 1, 2005 700+ words
...Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton, by Martin Brookes, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 298 pages, $24.95 FRANCIS GALTON (1822-1911) was a distinguished polymath who made...
- Sir Francis Galton and the roots of eugenics.(Science)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Sandall, Roger March 1, 2007 700+ words
...he had lived long enough, Sir Francis Galton's enthusiastic promotion of...kept for its victims and for us. Galton was born in 1822 and died in 1911...occasions disabled, the mind of Sir Francis Galton was one of the most prodigious...
- Good Breeding.('A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the...
- Magazine article from: National Review SELIGMAN, DAN January 28, 2002 700+ words
A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics...Ninety years after his death, arguments still rage about Francis Galton's intellectual legacy. Galton fans abound, but so do calumniators. I am one of many...
- "Transmuting" women into men: Galton's family data on human stature.(Francis...
- Magazine article from: The American Statistician Hanley, James A. August 1, 2004 700+ words
1. INTRODUCTION Francis Galton coined the term regression to describe...regression in hereditary stature," Galton (1886) divided the offspring into...shorter than they," and conversely. Galton's two-way frequency table "Number...
- Introduction Francis Galton, `Kantsaywhere' and `The Donoghues of Dunno Weir'....
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Claeys, Gregory March 22, 2001 700+ words
THE AUTHOR OF THESE PIECES, Francis Galton (1822-1911), was the founder...conceded as a crucial difference; see Galton's Memories of My Life, 1908...eugenics. The Texts and their Context Galton adopted the Greek word eugenes...
- Age and variability in Francis Galton's data.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Genetic Psychology Morse, Claire K. March 1, 1999 700+ words
...ago, the British scientist Sir Francis Galton (Darwin's cousin) collected...laboratories he established in London. Galton was interested in many things...Quetelet (Hothersall, 1995). Galton was also intrigued by the relationship...
- Eugenics and Utopia: sexual selection from Galton to Morris. (Francis Galton,...
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Parrinder, Patrick March 22, 1997 700+ words
...breeding, was coined by the biologist Francis Galton in his Inquiries into Human Faculty...was first published in book form, Galton used the occasion of his Presidential...3A: 220). But the fact that Galton, a distinguished statistician and...
- FRANCIS GALTON PEACOCK
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post March 10, 1987 700+ words
FRANCIS GALTON PEACOCK, 79, a retired Air Force colonel who devoted much of his career to intelligence work, died of cancer March 6 at Walter...
