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Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. By Robert Chambers. Second Edition. written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. By Robert Chambers. Second edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Robert Chambers
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Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Secord
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615825X
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Victorian Sensation written by James A. Secord and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09-20 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
Author : Robert Chambers
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Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226100722
Total Pages : 720 pages
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Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings written by Robert Chambers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1844, Vestiges sparked one of the great intellectual controversies of the century. Integrating research in anthropology, geology, astronony, biology, economics, and chemistry, it was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation. The author, whose identity was not revealed until 1884, was Robert Chambers (1802-71), a leading Scottish writer and publisher. Vestiges reached a huge popular audience in Europe and America and was widely read by the social and intellectual elite. It fostered debate about natural law, setting the stage for the controversy over Darwin's Origin. In response to criticism, Chambers published Explanations: A Sequel, which offered a reasoned defense of his ideas about progressive development, castigating what he saw as the narrowness of specialist science. This volume, which also includes Chambers's earliest cosmological writings, a bibliography of reviews, and a comprehensive new index, illuminates the changing meanings of science and religion in the Victorian era and the rise of secular ideologies in Western culture. -- from back cover.
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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston-upon-Hull; containing the works admitted since the publication of the Supplement to Mr. Clarke's Catalogue, in 1836. [Compiled by J. M. Stark.] written by John Mozley STARK and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022636593X
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Making Modern Science, Second Edition written by Peter J. Bowler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its influence on modern thought, the authors chronicle the major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to contemporary issues in genetics, physics, and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the second edition draws on the latest research and scholarship. It also contains two entirely new chapters: one that explores the impact of computing on the development of science, and another that shows how the West used science and technology as tools for geopolitical expansion. Designed for entry-level college courses and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Making Modern Science presents the history of science not as a series of names and dates, but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships joining science and society.
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Author : Samuel Richard BOSANQUET
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Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”: its argument examined and exposed ... Second edition. [A criticism of the work by Robert Chambers.] written by Samuel Richard BOSANQUET and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : M.J.S. Hodge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100093926X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Before and After Darwin written by M.J.S. Hodge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus in this volume is on the diversity of theories among such pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and on developments in the theory of natural selection since Darwin. Plato's Timaeus, the Biblical Genesis and any current textbook of evolutionary biology are all, it may well seem, on this same enduring topic: origins and species. However, even among classical authors, there were fundamental disagreements: the ontology and cosmogony of the Greek atomists were deeply opposed to Plato's; and, in the millennia since, the ontological and cosmogonical contexts for theories about origins and species have never settled into any unifying consensus. While the structure of Darwinian theory may be today broadly what it was in Darwin's own argumentation, controversy continues over the old issues about order, chance, necessity and purpose in the living world and the wider universe as a whole. The historical and philosophical papers collected in this volume, and in the companion volume devoted to Darwin's theorising, seek to clarify the major continuities and discontinuities in the long run of thinking about origins and species.
Author : Ramsay Cook
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442629215
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Regenerators, 2nd Edition written by Ramsay Cook and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social problems of the industrial age. The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism in this era and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led not to the Kingdom of God on earth, but, ironically, to the secular city. The winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction when it was first published in 1985, The Regenerators became an instant classic for its fascinating portraits of evolutionists, rationalists, spiritualists, socialists, and free thinkers before the turn of the century. This new edition features an introduction by historian and biographer Donald Wright.
Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198722206
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796-1880 written by Frederick C. Beiser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Kantianism was an important movement in German philosophy of the late 19th century: Frederick Beiser traces its development back to the late 18th century, and explains its rise as a response to three major developments in German culture: the collapse of speculative idealism; the materialism controversy; and the identity crisis of philosophy.
Author : Dennis R. Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521420488
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs written by Dennis R. Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in a generation--of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era. He had significant interaction with such well-known figures as James Parkinson, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Roderick Murchison, Charles Darwin, and Richard Owen. Dennis Dean, a well-known scholar of geology and the Victorian era, here places Mantell's career in its cultural context, employing original research in archives throughout the world, including the previously unexamined Mantell family papers in New Zealand.
Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786499516
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Dinosaurs Ever Evolving written by Allen A. Debus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "life through time" narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold "evolution" of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009477226
Total Pages : 483 pages
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