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Author : Ernst Ludwig Krause
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Erasmus Darwin written by Ernst Ludwig Krause and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernst Krause
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ISBN 13 : 9780598013316
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Erasmus Darwin. with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin written by Ernst Krause and published by . This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernst Krause
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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Erasmus Darwin written by Ernst Krause and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316998371
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 27, 1879 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 27 includes letters from 1879, the year in which Darwin completed his manuscript on movement in plants. He also researched and published a biography of his grandfather Erasmus. The Darwins spent most of August on holiday in the Lake District. In October, Darwin's youngest son, Horace, became officially engaged to Ida Farrer, after some initial resistance from her father, who, although an admirer of Charles Darwin, thought Horace a poor prospect for his daughter.
Author : Christopher Upham Murray Smith
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754636717
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Genius of Erasmus Darwin written by Christopher Upham Murray Smith and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genius of Erasmus Darwin provides insight into the full extent of Erasmus Darwin's exceptional intellect. He is shown to be a major creative thinker and innovator, one of the minds behind the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, and one of the first, if not the first, to perceive the living world (including humans) as part of a unified evolutionary scenario. The contributions here provide contextual understandings of Erasmus Darwin's thought, as well as studies of particular works and accounts of the later reception of his writings. In this way it is possible to see why the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to describe Darwin as 'the first literary character in Europe, and the most original-minded man'.Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was one of the leading intellectuals of eighteenth-century England. He was a man with an extraordinary range of interests and activities: he was a doctor, biologist, inventor, poet, linguist and botanist. He was also a founding member of the Lunar Society, an intellectual community that included such eminent men as James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter W. Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317111494
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen & Charles Darwin written by Peter W. Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation in his provocative new book. Graham shows that while the one is generally termed a naturalist (Darwin's preferred term for himself) and the other a novelist, these characterizations are at least partially interchangeable, as each author possessed skills that would serve well in either arena. Both Austen and Darwin are naturalists who look with a sharp, cold eye at the concrete particulars of the world around them. Both are in certain senses novelists who weave densely particularized and convincingly grounded narratives that convey their personal observations and perceptions to wide readerships. When taken seriously, the words and works of Austen and Darwin encourage their readers to look closely at the social and natural worlds around them and form opinions based on individual judgment rather than on transmitted opinion. Graham's four interlocked essays begin by situating Austen and Darwin in the English empirical tradition and focusing on the uncanny similarities in the two writers' respective circumstances and preoccupations. Both Austen and Darwin were fascinated by sibling relations. Both were acute observers and analysts of courtship rituals. Both understood constant change as the way of the world, whether the microcosm under consideration is geological, biological, social, or literary. Both grasped the importance of scale in making observations. Both discerned the connection between minute, particular causes and vast, general effects. Employing the trenchant analytical talents associated with his subjects and informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and the best of recent work by historians of science, Graham has given us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.
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Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Botanical Garden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the New York Botanical Garden written by New York Botanical Garden and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publications of the staff, scholars and students of the New York Botanical Garden during the year" in vol. 3- 1902- The list for 1901 includes March 1895-Dec.1901.
Author : Nicholas W. Gillham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195143655
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book A Life of Sir Francis Galton written by Nicholas W. Gillham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid biography of the father of eugenics is also a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era. 10 halftones & 26 line illustrations.
Author : Nicholas Wright Gillham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349431
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book A Life of Sir Francis Galton written by Nicholas Wright Gillham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, the inventor of regression and correlation analysis in statistics, and the founder of the eugenics movement. Now, Nicholas Gillham paints an engaging portrait of this Victorian polymath. The book traces Galton's ancestry (he was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin and the cousin of Charles Darwin), upbringing, training as a medical apprentice, and experience as a Cambridge undergraduate. It recounts in colorful detail Galton's adventures as leader of his own expedition in Namibia. Darwin was always a strong influence on his cousin and a turning point in Galton's life was the publication of the Origin of Species. Thereafter, Galton devoted most of his life to human heredity, using then novel methods such as pedigree analysis and twin studies to argue that talent and character were inherited and that humans could be selectively bred to enhance these qualities. To this end, he founded the eugenics movement which rapidly gained momentum early in the last century. After Galton's death, however, eugenics took a more sinister path, as in the United States, where by 1913 sixteen states had involuntary sterilization laws, and in Germany, where the goal of racial purity was pushed to its horrific limit in the "final solution." Galton himself, Gillham writes, would have been appalled by the extremes to which eugenics was carried. Here then is a vibrant biography of a remarkable scientist as well as a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era.
Author : Judith Hawley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040242359
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part II vol 5 written by Judith Hawley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
Author : Leon Zitzer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491791276
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Darwin’S Racism written by Leon Zitzer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th century in the British Empire, parallel developments in science and the law were squeezing Aborigines everywhere into nonexistence. Charles Darwin took part in this. Again and again, he expressed his approval of the extermination of the native lower races. The more interesting part of the story is that there were plenty of voices, albeit a minority and mostly forgotten now, who objected on humanitarian grounds (and sometimes scientific grounds as well). Europeans, they said, were becoming polished savages and dehumanizing the Other. Darwin was very aware of this criticism and cared not one whit. As he said in a letter to Charles Lyell, I care not much whether we are looked at as mere savages in a remotely distant future. But he well knew it was not a remote future. He had read several writers who accused Europeans of being the real savages. For a brief moment in his youth in his Diary, he himself dabbled in such criticism, even though he already believed in the inferiority of indigenous peoples. That belief grew firmer as he matured. Darwin did not dispute humanitarians so much as he ignored them. Its a sad story. But oh those humanitarians, how they inspire.
Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633887065
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book On The Origin of Evolution written by John Gribbin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. The idea of evolution had been around, in various guises, since the time of Ancient Greece. And nor did theorizing about evolution stop with what Daniel Dennett called "Darwin’s dangerous idea." In this riveting new book, bestselling science writers John and Mary Gribbin explore the history of the idea of evolution, showing how Darwin's theory built on what went before and how it was developed in the twentieth century, through an understanding of genetics and the biochemical basis of evolution, into the so-called "modern synthesis" and beyond. Darwin deserves his recognition as the primary proponent of the idea of natural selection, but as the authors show, his contribution was one link in a chain that extends back into antiquity and is still being forged today.
Author : C. Leon Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873954860
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Evolution: Genesis and Revelations written by C. Leon Harris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive history of evolutionism, C. Leon Harris has combined primary source readings with clear, pertinent background information, to provide a solid basic understanding of the ways scientists have arrived at today's views of evolution. Harris describes the major contributors to the theory of evolutionism, placing each in the context of the general cultural influences to which he was exposed. Each chapter also contains an explanation of the philosophical basis of the scientific approach of the period in question. A lengthy bibliography provides direction for further reading on this important and timely subject.
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Total Pages : 942 pages
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Download or read book The Pall Mall Budget written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
