The first of a two-volume biography of Charles Darwin follows the great nineteenth-century scientist from his youth, through his scientific apprenticeship at sea, to his refinement of the ideas that he presented in Origin of Species. 17,500 first printing.
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Janet Browne trained as a biologist, took her Ph.D. in the history of science, and has served as associate editor of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. She is the author of several books and many scholarly papers. She is professor in the history of biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London and is currently president of the British Society for the History of Science.
les Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his big book on species still lay on his study desk in the form of a huge pile of manuscript. For more than twenty years he had been accumulating material for it, puzzling over questions it raised, trying it seemed endlessly to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. Publication appeared to be as far away as ever, delayed by his inherent cautiousness and wish to be certain that his startling theory of evolution was correct.
It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Browne s biography opens. The much-praised first volume, Voyaging, carried Darwin s story through his youth and scientific apprenticeship, the adventurous Beagle voyage, his marriage and the birth of his children, the genesis and d
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Thick 8vo. xiii, 605 pp. Frontispiece, bibliography, index. Quarter gilt-stamped gold cloth over gilt-stamped yellow paper-backed boards, dust-jacket; jacket with small nick to corner, otherwise fine. ISBN: 0394579429 FIRST EDITION. "Janet Browne's definitive. . . biography. . . will not be matched in breadth, depth, insight, or joy in reading" (Reidy, Kroll, & Conway, p. 133). "There are innumerable studies of Darwin, facetiously referred to as the 'Darwin industry.' However, there are some that stand out. The best biography of Darwin was written by Janet Browne. Hers is a wonderful and wonderfully readable account of Darwin's work and life, with many new insights" (Watson, p. 1259). A second volume was issued. Reidy, Michael S., Gary R. Kroll, and Erik M. Conway. Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007; Watson, James, and Charles Darwin. The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2005. Artikel-Nr. S11301
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