Darwins Historical Sketch

Author : Curtis N. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190882938

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Darwin's Historical Sketch by Curtis N. Johnson Pdf

Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch" has appeared as a preface to nearly every authorized edition of Darwin's Origin of Species since the second English edition was published in 1860. The "Historical Sketch" provides a brief history of opinion about the species question as a prelude to Darwin's own independent contribution to the subject, but its provenance is somewhat obscure. While some previous thinkers anticipated portions of Darwin's theory long before he did, none of them saw the complete picture as clearly as Darwin. As such, he was able to claim originality and priority for the idea that has transformed our understanding of nature. His "Historical Sketch" was written as an attempt to address these issues. Some things are known about its production, such as when it first appeared and what changes were made to it between its first appearance in 1860 and its final form in 1866. Other questions remain unanswered. How did it evolve in Darwin's mind? Why did he write it at all? What did he think he was accomplishing by prefacing it to Origin of Species? Curtis Johnson approaches these questions, offering some clarity on the originality of Darwin's work. Darwin's "Historical Sketch" is the first comprehensive study of Darwin's "Preface" to Origin of Species. Johnson conveys the pressure Darwin felt from friends and other correspondents to showcase the originality of his theory, and he tackles questions of originality by carefully examining the 35 authors Darwin referenced in this monumental text.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780375751462

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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Pdf

Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out its first printing on the very day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly “passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street.” Based largely on Darwin’s experience as a naturalist while on a five-year voyage aboard H. M. S. Beagle, The Origin of Species set forth a theory of evolution and natural selection that challenged contemporary beliefs about divine providence and the immutability of species. This Modern Library edition includes a Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning science historian Edward J. Larson, an introductory historical sketch, and a glossary Darwin later added to the original text.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : AccessAble Books
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1570039771

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The Foundations of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Pdf

This is a reproduction of Darwin's early essay arguing that species change over time, drafted in 1842, seventeen years before he published 'On the Origin of Species'.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1715277252

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On the Origin of Species (Annotated) First Edition by Charles Darwin Pdf

This is the first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on November 24, 1859 in London by John Murray. It is a seminal work in scientific literature and a landmark work in evolutionary biology. It introduced the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. The starting chapters introduce the theory of natural selection, explaining why certain species thrive, while others decrease in number, how the members of nature are in competition with each other and why organisms tend to vary and change with time. Much of this work is based on experiments and observations seen within domestic animals and plants. The later chapters defend the theory of natural selection against apparent inconsistencies, why geological records are incomplete, why we find species so widespread and how sterility can be inherited when the organisation is unable to reproduce and more. The book is approachable for any audience.

Author : Julia Voss
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300141740

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Darwin's Pictures by Julia Voss Pdf

In this first-ever examination of Charles Darwin's sketches, drawings, and illustrations, Julia Voss presents the history of evolutionary theory told in pictures. Darwin had a life-long interest in pictorial representations of nature, sketching out his evolutionary theory and related ideas for over forty years. Voss details the pictorial history of Darwin's theory of evolution, starting with his notebook sketches of 1837 and ending with the illustrations in The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). These images were profoundly significant for Darwin's long-term argument for evolutionary theory; each characterizes a different aspect of his relationship with the visual information and constitutes what can be called an “icon' of evolution. Voss shows how Darwin “thought with his eyes' and how his pictorial representations and the development and popularization of the theory of evolution were vitally interconnected. Voss explores four of Darwin's images in depth, and weaves about them a story on the development and presentation of Darwin's theory, in which she also addresses the history of Victorian illustration, the role of images in science, the technologies of production, and the relationship between specimen, words, and images.

Author : Patrick Matthew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Arboriculture
ISBN : BL:A0019925034

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On Naval Timber and Arboriculture by Patrick Matthew Pdf

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 1853267805

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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Pdf

Darwin's theory of natural selection is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological inter-relatedness revealing the almost unthinkably complex and mutual inter-dependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment and - by implication - the human world.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108005489

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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Pdf

This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year. The sixth edition contains a 'historical sketch' in which Darwin reviews the many works by eminent European and American scientists - beginning with Lamarck in 1801 - in which ideas of evolutionary species change and of natural selection were touched on but not developed. This edition, like all from the second onwards, contains the words 'by the Creator', controversially added to the famous last sentence in the book: 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...'

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Pdf

The Origin of Species (the full title being, 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life'), is a scientific work by Charles Darwin, published on 24 November 1859. It is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, introducing the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. The book includes evidence that Darwin had collected on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings.

Author : Rebecca Stott
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400069378

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Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott Pdf

Citing an 1859 letter that accused Charles Darwin of failing to acknowledge his scientific predecessors, a chronicle of the collective history of evolution dedicates each chapter to an evolutionary thinker, from Aristotle and da Vinci to Denis Diderot to the naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Richard Landon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215302154

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Richard Landon Pdf

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781528789752

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The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin Pdf

First published in 1839, “The Voyage of the Beagle” is the book written by Charles Darwin that chronicles his experience of the famous survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Part travel memoir, part scientific field journal, it covers such topics as biology, anthropology, and geology, demonstrating Darwin's changing views and ideas while he was developing his theory of evolution. A book highly recommended for those with an interest in evolution and is not to be missed by collectors of important historical literature. Contents include: “St. Jago—Cape De Verd Islands”, “Rio De Janeiro”, “Maldonado”, “Rio Negro To Bahia Blanca”, “Bahia Blanca”, “Bahia Blanca To Buenos Ayres”, “Banda Oriental And Patagonia”, etc. Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) was an English geologist, naturalist, and biologist most famous for his contributions to the science of evolution and his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009375702

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Darwin Mythology by Kostas Kampourakis Pdf

This accessible collection debunks pervasive myths about Darwin's life and work, deepening our understanding of the history of science.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0760769087

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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin Pdf

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 0565095021

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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Pdf

An instant bestseller in 1859, few books have had such a revolutionary impact and left such a lasting impression as On the Origin of Species. Possibly the most important and challenging scientific book ever published, Darwin's language remains surprisingly modern and direct. It is presented here in a faithful yet generously detailed facsimile edition. The text is taken from the second edition (1860), which incorporated some minor corrections but is otherwise the purest distillation of Darwin's original vision. It includes a new foreword as well as an introductory appendix, An Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin, taken from the third edition (1861).