Francis Galton

Finger Prints

The Classic 1892 Treatise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Landmark discusses the evidence validating fingerprints as a means of personal identification, permanence of the fingerprint characteristics, uniqueness of an assemblage of ridge details, more. 34 tables. 15 plates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 142mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780486439303
• ISBN-10: 0486439305
• Artikelnr.: 22427212

Autorenporträt

Among his many significant accomplishments, British scientist SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822-1911) was an explorer, a geographer, a statistician, and inventor of fingerprint identification. In addition to more than 300 scientific papers, he wrote the books Hereditary Genius (1914), Finger Prints (1893), Memories of My Life (1908), and others.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction II. Previous Use of Finger Prints III. Methods of Printing
IV. The Ridges and Their Uses V. Patterns: Their Outlines and Cores VI.
Persistence VII. Evidential Value IX. Methods of Indexing X. Personal
Identification XI. Heredity XIII. Genera