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Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
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Download or read book Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131647318X
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 996 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 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.
Author : Frederic Charles Cook
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book The Origins of Religion and Language written by Frederic Charles Cook and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William James Lloyd Wharton
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Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Hydrographical Surveying written by William James Lloyd Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey written by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lander
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809329905
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Lincoln and Darwin written by James Lander and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on the same day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were true contemporaries. Though shaped by vastly different environments, they had remarkably similar values, purposes, and approaches. In this exciting new study, James Lander places these two iconic men side by side and reveals the parallel views they shared of man and God. While Lincoln is renowned for his oratorical prowess and for the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as many other accomplishments, his scientific and technological interests are not widely recognized; for example, many Americans do not know that Lincoln is the only U.S. president to obtain a patent. Darwin, on the other hand, is celebrated for his scientific achievements but not for his passionate commitment to the abolition of slavery, which in part drove his research in evolution. Both men took great pains to avoid causing unnecessary offense despite having abandoned traditional Christianity. Each had one main adversary who endorsed scientific racism: Lincoln had Stephen A. Douglas, and Darwin had Louis Agassiz. With graceful and sophisticated writing, Lander expands on these commonalities and uncovers more shared connections to people, politics, and events. He traces how these two intellectual giants came to hold remarkably similar perspectives on the evils of racism, the value of science, and the uncertainties of conventional religion. Separated by an ocean but joined in their ideas, Lincoln and Darwin acted as trailblazers, leading their societies toward greater freedom of thought and a greater acceptance of human equality. This fascinating biographical examination brings the mid-nineteenth-century discourse about race, science, and humanitarian sensibility to the forefront using the mutual interests and pursuits of these two historic figures.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521385640
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
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.
Author : Gowan Dawson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633287X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Show Me the Bone written by Gowan Dawson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs, and feet. Show Me the Bone tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim, tracing its fortunes from Europe to America and showing how it persisted in popular science and literature and shaped the practices of paleontologists long after the method on which it was based had been refuted. In so doing, Gowan Dawson reveals how decisively the practices of the scientific elite were—and still are—shaped by their interactions with the general public.
Author : Terry Mortenson
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0890514089
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Great Turning Point written by Terry Mortenson and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people in the Church today have the idea that "young-earth" creationism is a fairly recent invention, popularized by fundamentalist Christians in the mid-20th century. Is this view correct? In fact, scholar Terry Mortenson has done fascinating original research on this subject in England, and documents that several leading, pre-Darwin scholars and scientists, known as "scriptural geologists" did not believe in long ages for the earth.This book is a thoroughly researched work of reference for every library - certainly every creationist library. Terry Mortenson spent much time and work on this project in both the United States and Great Britain. The history of the Church and evolution is fascinating, and it is interesting to see not only the tremendous influence that evolution has had on the Church, but on society as well.
Author : Mark Thornhill
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny written by Mark Thornhill and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1884 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Events at Agra & Muttra.
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Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338531061X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Dissertations on Early Law and Custom; Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200807
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021
Author : Charles Coulston Gillispie
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674344815
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Genesis and Geology written by Charles Coulston Gillispie and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches that, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over On the Origin of Species was nothing new: earlier discoveries in science, particularly geology, had presented major challenges, not only to the literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, but even more seriously to the traditional idea that Providence controls the order of nature with an eye to fulfilling divine purpose. A new Foreword by Nicolaas Rupke places this book in the context of the last forty-five years of scholarship in the social history of evolutionary thought. Everyone interested in the history of modern science, in ideas, and in nineteenth-century England will want to read this book.
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Total Pages : 800 pages
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Download or read book The Leisure Hour written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300080070
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Great Exhibition of 1851 written by Jeffrey A. Auerbach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674883826
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Thinking about the Earth written by David Roger Oldroyd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.
