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Author: Charles James Fox Bunbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-29
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1108041205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of Victorian botanist and geologist Sir Charles Bunbury (1809-86), published by his wife between 1890 and 1893.
Author: Charles James Fox Bunbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-29
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1108041159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of Victorian botanist and geologist Sir Charles Bunbury (1809-86), published by his wife between 1890 and 1893.
Author: Joel Schwartz
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-08-04
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 3030748596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work is a fresh examination of the lives and careers of Brown and Park and their impact on natural history and exploration. Brown and Park were part of a group of intrepid naturalists who brought back some of the flora and fauna they encountered, drawings of what they observed, and most importantly, their ideas. The educated public back home was able to gain an understanding of the diversity in nature. This eventually led to the development of new ways of regarding the natural world and the eventual development of a coherent theory of organic evolution. This book considers these naturalists, Brown, Park, and their contemporaries, from the perspective of the Scottish Enlightenment. Brown’s investigations in natural history created a fertile environment for breakthroughs in taxonomy, cytology, and eventually evolution. Brown’s pioneering work in plant taxonomy allowed biologists to look at the animal and plant kingdoms differently. Park’s adventures stimulated significant discoveries in exploration. Brown and Park’s adventures formed a bridge to such journeys as Charles Darwin’s voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, which led to a revolution in biology and full explication of the theory of evolution.
Author: James Edward Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-20
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1108069703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1821, a two-volume collection of correspondence between some of the brightest naturalists of the eighteenth century.
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 762
ISBN-13: 9780521255912
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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." --
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780521255899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, covering the years 1844-6.
Author: Thomas F. Glick
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 0801897521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P. T. Barnum, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma Gandhi, Carl Jung, Martin Luther King, Mao Tse-tung, Pius IX, Jules Verne, and Virginia Woolf. What was it about Darwin that generated such widespread interest? His Origin of Species changed the world. Naturalists, clerics, politicians, novelists, poets, musicians, economists, and philosophers alike could not help but engage his theory of evolution. Whatever their view of his theory, however, those who met Darwin were unfailingly charmed by his modesty, kindness, honesty, and seriousness of purpose. This diverse collection drawn from essays, letters, novels, short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, and parodies demonstrates how Darwin’s ideas permeated all areas of thought. The quotations trace a broad conversation about Darwin across great distances of time and space, revealing his profound influence on the great thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780521451567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jack Morrell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1315445069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2005, this book represents the first full length biography of John Phillips, one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Adopting a broad chronological approach, this book not only traces the development of Phillips’ career but clarifies and highlights his role within Victorian culture, shedding light on many wider themes. It explores how Phillips’ love of science was inseparable from his need to earn a living and develop a career which could sustain him. Hence questions of power, authority, reputation and patronage were central to Phillips’ career and scientific work. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and a rich body of recent writings on Victorian science, this biography brings together his personal story with the scientific theories and developments of the day, and fixes them firmly within the context of wider society.
Author: Jonathan R. Topham
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-10-12
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 0226815765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"When Darwin returned to Britain from the Beagle voyage in 1836, the most talked-about scientific books were the Bridgewater Treatises. This series of eight books was funded by a bequest of the last Earl of Bridgewater, and they were authored by leading men of science, appointed by the President of the Royal Society, and intended to explore "the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation." Securing public attention beyond all expectations, the series gave Darwin's generation a range of approaches to one of the great questions of the age: how to incorporate the newly emerging disciplinary sciences into Britain's overwhelmingly Christian culture. Drawing on a wealth of archival and published sources, including many unexplored by historians, Jonathan R. Topham examines how and to what extent the series contributed to a sense of congruence between Christianity and the sciences in the generation before the infamous Victorian "conflict between science and religion." He does so by drawing on the distinctive insights of book history, using close attention to the production, circulation, and use of the books to open up new perspectives not only on aspects of early Victorian science but also on the whole subject of science and religion. Its innovative focus on practices of authorship, publishing, and reading helps us to understand the everyday considerations and activities through which the religious culture of early Victorian science was fashioned. And in doing so, Reading the Book of Nature powerfully reimagines the world in which a young Charles Darwin learned how to think about the implications of his theory"--
