GALTON, FRANCIS. - Born at Duddeston on 16 February
1822 and died at Haslemere on 17 January 1911.
A cousin of Darwin, a naturalist and statistician of great
worth. He discovered the law of "filial regression" and
that of "ancestral heredity", laws that had a
great resonance until the rediscovery of Mendel's laws.
He continued the work of Quételot and, together with his pupil
Pearson, is regarded as the founder of biometry. Of great
importance is his concept of measuring the correlation
between quantitative characters.
Bibliography2 worksMemory of my life, London 1908; K. Pearson, The life, letters and labours of F. G., ibid. 1921.
BIBL.: Memory of my life, London 1908; K. Pearson, The
life, letters and labours of F. G., ibid. 1921.
Baffoni, Giorgio Maria. “Galton, francis.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1914. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/galton-francis.
MLA
Baffoni, Giorgio Maria. “Galton, francis.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1914. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/galton-francis.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_galton_francis,
author = {Baffoni, Giorgio Maria},
title = {Galton, francis},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1914},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/galton-francis}
}
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