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Book Synopsis Charles Darwin in Cambridge by : John van Wyhe
Download or read book Charles Darwin in Cambridge written by John van Wyhe and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge have long remained undiscovered. Consequently his day-to-day life there has remained unknown and misunderstood. This book is based on new research, including newly discovered manuscripts and Darwin publications, and gathers together recollections of those who knew Darwin as a student. This book therefore reveals Darwin's time in Cambridge in unprecedented detail. Contents:Early Life 1809–1825Edinburgh University 1825–1827Coming Up to CambridgeFirst Year at CambridgeSecond Year at CambridgeThird Year at CambridgeLast Terms at CambridgeVoyage of the Beagle — and Return to CambridgeThe Origin of Species and Honorary Cambridge Degree1909: The First Darwin Centenary in Cambridge2009: The Second Darwin Centenary in CambridgeAcknowledgementsAppendicesReferencesIndex Readership: The book is aimed at undergraduate students, Historians and Scientists. Key Features:No other work covers this pivotal time in Darwin's life in such detailWritten by a member of Darwin's own collegeThe book is lavishly illustrated with never before seen contemporary illustrationsKeywords:Charles Darwin;University of Cambridge;Evolution;History of Science
Book Synopsis Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin' by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin' written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin s book about his grandfather, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, is curiously fascinating. Before publication in 1879, it was shortened by 16%, with several of the cuts directed at its most provocative parts. The cutter, with Charles s permission, was his daughter Henrietta - an example of the strong hidden hand of meek-seeming Victorian women. This first unabridged edition, edited by Desmond King-Hele, includes all that Charles originally intended, the cuts being restored and printed in italics. Erasmus Darwin was one of the leading intellectuals of the eighteenth century. He was a respected physician, a well-known poet, a keen mechanical inventor, and a founding member of the influential Lunar Society. He also possessed an amazing insight into the many branches of physical and biological science. Most notably, he adopted what we now call biological evolution as his theory of life, 65 years prior to Charles Darwin s Origin of Species.
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 18, 1870 by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 18, 1870 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the letters of Charles Darwin portrays his personal life and the development of his scientific theories
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 7, 1858-1859 by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 7, 1858-1859 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters in this volume cover two of the most momentous years in Darwin's life. Begun in 1856 and the fruit of twenty years of study and reflection, Darwin's manuscript on the species question was a little more than half finished, and at least two years from publication, when in June 1858 Darwin unexpectedly received a letter and a manuscript from Alfred Russel Wallace indicating that he too had independently formulated a theory of natural selection. The letters detail the various stages in the preparation of what was to become one of the world's most famous works: Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, published by John Murray in November 1859. They reveal the first impressions of Darwin's book given by his most trusted confidants, and they relate Darwin's anxious response to the early reception of his theory by friends, family members, and prominent naturalists. This volume provides the capstone to Darwin's remarkable efforts for more than two decades to solve one of nature's greatest riddles - the origin of species.
Download or read book Erasmus Darwin written by Ernst Krause and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1879 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Power of Movement in Plants by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Power of Movement in Plants written by Charles Darwin and published by Richard West. This book was released on 1892 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Darwin written by Peter J. Bowler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon publication, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, nonetheless underpinning the Victorian concept of progress. It still evokes powerful and contradictory responses today. Peter Bowler's study of Darwin's life, first published in 1990, combines biography and cultural history. Emphasizing in particular the impact of Darwin's work, he shows how Darwin's contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of his thinking that are considered scientifically important today. He also demonstrates that Darwin was a product of his time, but he also transcended it by creating an idea capable of being exploited by twentieth-century scientists and intellectuals who had very different values from his own.
Book Synopsis Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Darwin's notes and logs from his voyage are published. Included are analyses, pencil drawings, and technical notes.
Book Synopsis Charles Darwin's Letters by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book Charles Darwin's Letters written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin stands as an icon in the history of science; a man who completely changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. These letters offer a fascinating window onto the scientific observations, personal concerns and friendships of a great thinker, affording a unique glimpse of Darwin as both naturalist and family man. From his early years at Edinburgh University up to the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, the letters in this volume chart the most exciting years of Darwin's life.
Download or read book Darwin written by William Arthur Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary overview, by leading authorities, of the influence of the work of Charles Darwin on arts, science and society.
Download or read book Evolution written by Frederick Burkhardt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin is a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is a fascinating insight into Darwin's life as he first directly addressed the issues of humanity's place in nature, and the consequences of his ideas for religious belief. Incorporating previously unpublished material, this volume includes letters written by Darwin, and also those written to him by friends and scientific colleagues world-wide, by critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and admirers who helped them to spread. They take up the story of Darwin's life in 1860, in the immediate aftermath of the publication of On the Origin of Species, and carry it through one of the most intense and productive decades of his career, to the eve of publication of Descent of Man in 1871.
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 1, 1821-1836 by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 1, 1821-1836 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume inaugurates a complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The first volume of the edition contains the letters of the years 1821-1836. They begin with one written to Darwin at the age of twelve and continue through his school days at Shrewsbury, his two years as a medical student at Edinburgh, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and his five years of exploration and learning during the voyage of the Beagle. These were Darwin's years of initiation and preparation for a life of science. In the earliest letters Darwin appears already keenly interested in natural history and an avid collector of minerals, plants, marine invertebrates, and insects - especially beetles. The letters of the succeeding years tell the story of the young Darwin's development up to his return to England when, at the age of twenty-seven, he was received as a colleague by Charles Lyell, Adam Sedgwick, and other leading scientists, who had already heard of his discoveries and observations during the Beagle voyage.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Darwin by : Jonathan Hodge
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Darwin written by Jonathan Hodge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809–82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin has established itself as an indispensable resource for anyone teaching or researching Darwin's theories and their historical and philosophical interpretations. Its distinguished team of contributors examines Darwin's main scientific ideas and their development; Darwin's science in the context of its times; the influence of Darwinian thought in recent philosophical, social and religious debate; and the importance of Darwinian thought for the future of naturalist philosophy. For this second edition, coverage has been expanded to include two new chapters: on Darwin, Hume and human nature, and on Darwin's theories in the intellectual long run, from the pre-Socratics to the present.
Book Synopsis Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made, providing an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelogue that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy.From the reviews:' a record of his immediate feelings, the sea-sickness, the triumphs of his palaeontological finds, close shaves with General Rosas and military activity in Patagonia, dringking maté and smoking cigarilloes with the Gaucho, the stars glittering over the Andes vivid and expressive...'Janet Browne
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 2, 1837-1843 by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 2, 1837-1843 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The letters in this volume were written during the seven years following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage. It was a period of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional man with official responsibilities in several scientific organisations. During these years he published two books and fifteen papers and also organised and superintended the publication of the Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, for which he described the locations of the fossils and the habitats and behaviour of the living species he had collected. Busy as he was with scientific activities, Darwin found time to re-establish family ties and friendships, and to make new friends among the naturalists with whom his work brought him into close contact. In November 1838, two years after his return Darwin became engaged to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, whom he subsequently married.
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867 by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research on human expression and sexual selection.
Book Synopsis The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 5, 1851-1855 by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 5, 1851-1855 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's are made available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. Letter-writing was of crucial importance to Darwin's work, not only because his poor health isolated him from direct personal communication with his scientific colleagues but also because the nature of his investigations required communication with naturalists in many fields and in all quarters of the globe. Thus the letters are a mine of information about the work in progress of a creative genius who produced an intellectual revolution." --
