Vestiges And The Debate Before Darwin

Author : John M. Lynch
Publisher : Thoemmes
Page : 2217 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1855068621

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Vestiges & Debate Darwin by John M. Lynch Pdf

Author : John M. Lynch
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1855068621

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"Vestiges" and the Debate Before Darwin by John M. Lynch Pdf

'Robert Chambers's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was the most important pre-Darwinian work of evolutionary thought published in Victorian Britain. It caused huge controversy and was undoubtedly a major factor in preparing the way, both positively and negatively, for On the Origin of Species. To this point, essential documents surrounding the work - the reviews, the commentaries, the expositions, and more - have been incredibly difficult to obtain and truly available only to the most privileged scholar. Now with the publication of the Thoemmes Press collection on Vestiges, essential material will be readily available to all. The editor, John M. Lynch, and the Press are to be congratulated and thanked for making this possible.' - Michael Ruse Vestiges and the Debate Before Darwin centres on Robert Chambers's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and reprints all the key documents in the controversy that surrounded its publication. Vestiges was first published in 1844. Chambers, one of the most successful publishers in Britain, managed to keep his authorship a secret throughout the ten editions published in his lifetime. The work reached a huge popular audience and was widely read by the social and intellectual elite. Despite initially favourable reviews, its publication sent shockwaves through the world of British science. Chambers suggested that the whole of nature, including mankind, could be explained by the action of a single universal evolutionary law--a law that suggested that not only did change happen in the past, but that it would continue into the future. Such a statement enflamed both religious conservatives (Sedgwick referred to the 'inner deformity and foulness' of the work and its 'gross and filthy views of physiology') and scientists (T. H. Huxley said that the author was 'one of those who--indulge in science at second-hand and dispense totally with logic', and physicist Sir David Brewster warned that Vestiges 'stood a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of religion'). Understanding the upheaval that Vestiges caused in 'polite' British society is key to understanding Darwin's later argument and the reaction to his work by the same public. Reprinted here is the rare tenth edition of Vestiges (1853), written in response to this widespread criticism, plus Chambers's 'sequel', Explanations, written largely as a reply to Sedgwick's highly critical review of Vestiges. Periodical reviews and other important book-length refutations are also incorporated, including rare editions of works by Adam Sedgwick, William Whewell and Hugh Miller. With introductory essays by John M. Lynch of Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins, this important set will appeal to both historians of evolutionary thought and philosophers of science alike. -collection of rare primary sources on the evolution debate before Darwin -selects the best editions, added to which are extensive introductory essays -gathers numerous critical reviews tracing the debate over ten years -intriguing case study of Victorian scientific controversy

Author : John M. Lynch
Publisher : Thoemmes
Page : 2217 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1855068621

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Vestiges & Debate Darwin by John M. Lynch Pdf

Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Evolution
ISBN : NYPL:33433090748256

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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers Pdf

Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174613553

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Explanations: a Sequel to 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Robert Chambers Pdf

Author : S. Laing
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547016533

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An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" by S. Laing Pdf

The author of this book, Samuel Laing, was a British railway administrator, politician, and writer on science and religion during the Victorian era. Although he didn't have any scientific education, he often wrote on science matters. His writings were widely read in his times due to the writer's influential position, the experience of affairs, and clear style. The author also displayed a well-informed treatment of the scientific problems of the day.

Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317967163

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International Life Writing by Paul Longley Arthur Pdf

Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating connections between people, places and historical eras, they unfold against the backdrop of events and social movements of global significance that have influenced the world in which we live today. Many of the authors document and celebrate lives that have been lost, hidden or neglected. They are reconstituted from the archives, restored through testimony and reimagined through art. The effects of colonialism, war and conflict on individual lives can be seen throughout the book alongside themes of transnational connection, displacement and exile, migration of individuals, families and peoples, and recovery and recuperation through memory and writing, creativity and performance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Life Writing.

Author : Bradley J. Gundlach
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467438964

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Process and Providence by Bradley J. Gundlach Pdf

Charles Hodge, James McCosh, B. B. Warfield -- these leading professors at Princeton College and Seminary in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are famous for their orthodox Protestant positions on the doctrine of evolution. In this book Bradley Gundlach explores the surprisingly positive embrace of developmental views by the whole community of thinkers at old Princeton, showing how they embraced the development not only of the cosmos and life-forms but also of Scripture and the history of doctrine, even as they defended their historic Christian creed. Decrying an intellectual world gone “evolution-mad,” the old Princetonians nevertheless welcomed evolution “properly limited and explained.” Rejecting historicism and Darwinism, they affirmed developmentalism and certain non-Darwinian evolutionary theories, finding process over time through the agency of second causes — God’s providential rule in the world -- both enlightening and polemically useful. They also took care to identify the pernicious causes and effects of antisupernatural evolutionisms. By the 1920s their nuanced distinctions, together with their advocacy of both biblical inerrancy and modern science, were overwhelmed by the brewing fundamentalist controversy. From the first American review of the pre-Darwinian Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation to the Scopes Trial and the forced reorganization of Princeton Seminary in 1929, Process and Providence reliably portrays the preeminent conservative Protestants in America as they defined, contested, and answered -- precisely and incisively -- the many facets of the evolution question.

Author : Milton Millhauser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031283802

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Just Before Darwin by Milton Millhauser Pdf

"Every great intellectual concept has both its prophets and its forerunners; and in the field of evolutionary thought, Robert Chambers of Victorian Edinburgh was such a forerunner. He was only an amateur scientist, yet his anonymous book on the "developmental hypothesis," Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), was more influential in breaking down popular (and even scientific) resistance to that "anti-religious" theory than any other predecessor of The Origin of Species. In fact, Vestiges was one of the most controversial books of its time, roundly attacked by many, warmly upheld by some, and read to the extent of eleven British editions plus an unknown number of pirated American printings. This book is the story of both Vestiges and its author, the hard-working son of a poor Scots weaver who became a popular essayist, a successful publisher, a spare-time geologist of some worth, an outstanding citizen, and eventually a dabbler in spiritualism--and whose writing of the notorious Vestiges remained a secret until years after his death..." -- Book jacket.

Author : Joseph Packer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498513029

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Alien Life and Human Purpose by Joseph Packer Pdf

Alien Life and Human Purpose provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or unity, to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Packer contends that unity had a complimentary mythic function and continues to shape modern social values. This work will be of interest to rhetoricians, philosophers, historians, and theologists.

Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226731308

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Worlds Before Adam by Martin J. S. Rudwick Pdf

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about this vast timescale. But despite this apparent harmony between geology and Genesis, these scientists still debated a great many questions: Had the earth cooled from its origin as a fiery ball in space, or had it always been the same kind of place as it is now? Was prehuman life marked by mass extinctions, or had fauna and flora changed slowly over time? The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory, Martin J. S. Rudwick’s Worlds Before Adam picks up where his celebrated Bursting the Limits of Time leaves off. Here, Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain’s Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period: the unearthing of the first dinosaur fossils, the glacial theory of the last ice age, and the meaning of igneous rocks, among others. Ultimately, Rudwick reveals geology to be the first of the sciences to investigate the historical dimension of nature, a model that Charles Darwin used in developing his evolutionary theory. Featuring an international cast of colorful characters, with Georges Cuvier and Charles Lyell playing major roles and Darwin appearing as a young geologist, Worlds Before Adam is a worthy successor to Rudwick’s magisterial first volume. Completing the highly readable narrative of one of the most momentous changes in human understanding of our place in the natural world, Worlds Before Adam is a capstone to the career of one of the world’s leading historians of science.

Author : James A. Secord
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226158259

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Victorian Sensation by James A. Secord Pdf

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 : Joseph E. Harmon,Alan G. Gross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226316567

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The Scientific Literature by Joseph E. Harmon,Alan G. Gross Pdf

Excerpts from scientific writings that illustrate the evolution of the scientific article from its origin in 1665 till today. Includes commentaries explaining the context and communication strategy.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316404648

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The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe Pdf

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520236936

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Evolution by Peter J. Bowler Pdf

The comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact on one of the most controversial of scientific theories.