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How did Sherlock Holmes influence education throughout the world? How did Sherlock Holmes influence Forensic Science? Please help!?
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- Anonymous4 years ago
While you are looking up Sherlock Holmes, have a look at Adam Worth, compare him with Moriarty.
- larry1Lv 74 years ago
Also in addition to the previous answers author Conan -Doyle emphasized Holmes using....'logic'....science...history...current events.... to solve problems
which encouraged real people who read the stories to do the same for real.
- DON WLv 74 years ago
Although Holmes was fictional, some of the techniques that the author Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes use became standard practices in police science, including inductive reasoning, minute examination of the crime scene for clues, careful measurement of things such as footprints, and examination of tobacco ashes. The character repeatedly said not to jump to a conclusion about the crime until you have collected and analyzed all the evidence.
- ?Lv 74 years ago
He didn't. Holmes was a fictional character. But some of the people that Holmes was based on may have had some influence. Conan Doyle repeatedly said that Holmes was inspired by the real-life figure of Joseph Bell, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, whom Doyle met in 1877 and had worked for as a clerk. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing broad conclusions from minute observations.] Sir Henry Littlejohn, Chair of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, is also cited as an inspiration for Holmes. Littlejohn, who was also Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health in Edinburgh, provided Doyle with a link between medical investigation and the detection of crime.
Other inspirations have been considered. One is thought to be Francis "Tanky" Smith, a policeman and master of disguise who went on to become Leicester's first private detective.[



