Extreme Measures The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton – Martin Brookes Op = Op

“Count wherever you can” was the motto of Sir Francis Galton’s extraordinary life. His measuring mind left its mark all over the scientific landscape. Explorer, inventor, meteorologist, psychologist, anthropologist, and statistician, Galton was one of the great Victorian polymaths. And his obsessive quest for knowledge extended far beyond conventional fields of learning. He turned tea-making into a theoretical science, counted the brush strokes on his portrait, and created a beauty map of the British Isles…