Dactylography: Or the Study of Finger-Prints (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henry Faulds

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133211816X ISBN 13 : 9781332118168

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Dactylography: Or the Study of Finger-Prints

In a similar way the palaeontologist strives to interpret the impress made by organisms on primeval mud ?ats or sandy shores aeons ago. There are numbers, whole species indeed, of extinct jelly fishes the existence of which has never been known directly, but that there once were such beings in the world has been confidently deduced from the permanent impressions their soft and perishable bodies have left in the fine texture of certain rocks. The Chinese tell us that one of their sages first learned to write and to teach the use of written characters by observing the marks made by a bird''s claws.

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dactylography deals with what is of scientific interest and practical value in regard to the lineations in the skin on the fingers and toes or rather on the hands and feet of men, monkeys, and allied tribes which lineations form patterns of great variety and persistence. The Greeks used the term (daktylos tou podos, finger of the foot) for a toe; and the toes are of almost as much interest to the dactylographer as the fingers, and present similar patterns for study. In primitive times the savage hunter had to use all his wits sharply in the examination of foot and toe marks, whether of the game he pursued or the human foe he guarded against, and he learned to deduce many a curious lesson with Sherlock Holmes-like acuteness and precision. The recency, the rate of motion, the length of stride, the degree of fatigue, the number, and kinds and conditions of men or beasts that had impressed their traces on the soil, all could be read by him with ease and promptness. Such imprints have been preserved in early Mexican picture writings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133211816X
• ISBN 13: 9781332118168
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 137
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