Galton
[gɔ:ltәn]
解釋/意思:
(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).
編輯:桑德拉--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 世紀發明.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- When Galton questioned persons whom he met in general society he found an entirely different disposition to prevail. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
整理:梅尔巴