Galton

(noun.) English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911).

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• Douglas Galton of the English army for use in barracks, but this stove is also admirably adapted for houses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• When Galton questioned persons whom he met in general society he found an entirely different disposition to prevail. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Galton attributed the difference to the scientist's habits of highly generalized and abstract thought, especially when the steps of reasoning are carried on by words [employed] as symbols. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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