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Sir Francis Galton
Just a doodle but I don't have any pens at my sisters place so the outline is in pencil and then ruined in photoshop elements
Sir Francis Galton was my kind of scientist. As a young bloke he took a job dispensing medicine in a pharmacy (my current job) he figured that the only way to really understand the drugs was to try every single one in alphabetical order and see what happened. Only trouble being he got to the letter C and took two drops of a powerful emetic and it made him puke so bad he gave up on the whole idea. He wrote an extensive book on travel covering every ridiculous eventuality - usually his advice was completely wrong for example "to find a source of honey: catch a bee, carefully tie a feather to one of it's legs, then throw it back into the air and follow it to the hive". Allegedly his house, had no carpet, cushions or wallpaper but was full of his own inventions including one that informed everybody in the house when someone was in the toilet. Apparently this saved him walking up the stairs.
But the bit I find most appealing about him was his work on finding beauty in women. You see his cousin was Darwin and when Charlie boy set his book The Origin of Species loose on the world Francis obsessed over the fact that traits were hereditary. Naturally he assumed this included intelligence and feminine beauty. He then took it upon himself to find out where the sexiest birds were and went round all the cities he could get to putting all the women he saw into 6 categories from "thin to prize fat" anyway he somehow worked out London had the best proportion of fit girls and Aberdeen the worst.
I first read about him in a book called Woman as Design (well worth buying) and have been vaguely interested in him since.
He also invented and studied a load of other cool shit so go and learn about him if you get 5 minutes.
Sir Francis Galton
Just a doodle but I don't have any pens at my sisters place so the outline is in pencil and then ruined in photoshop elements
Sir Francis Galton was my kind of scientist. As a young bloke he took a job dispensing medicine in a pharmacy (my current job) he figured that the only way to really understand the drugs was to try every single one in alphabetical order and see what happened. Only trouble being he got to the letter C and took two drops of a powerful emetic and it made him puke so bad he gave up on the whole idea. He wrote an extensive book on travel covering every ridiculous eventuality - usually his advice was completely wrong for example "to find a source of honey: catch a bee, carefully tie a feather to one of it's legs, then throw it back into the air and follow it to the hive". Allegedly his house, had no carpet, cushions or wallpaper but was full of his own inventions including one that informed everybody in the house when someone was in the toilet. Apparently this saved him walking up the stairs.
But the bit I find most appealing about him was his work on finding beauty in women. You see his cousin was Darwin and when Charlie boy set his book The Origin of Species loose on the world Francis obsessed over the fact that traits were hereditary. Naturally he assumed this included intelligence and feminine beauty. He then took it upon himself to find out where the sexiest birds were and went round all the cities he could get to putting all the women he saw into 6 categories from "thin to prize fat" anyway he somehow worked out London had the best proportion of fit girls and Aberdeen the worst.
I first read about him in a book called Woman as Design (well worth buying) and have been vaguely interested in him since.
He also invented and studied a load of other cool shit so go and learn about him if you get 5 minutes.