Charles Darwin: The Power of Place - Hardcover

Browne, E. J.

 
9780679429326: Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679429328 ISBN 13: 9780679429326
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

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The second volume in a definitive biography of Charles Darwin, following Charles Darwin: Voyaging, begins in 1858 when, against his better judgment, Darwin was forced to publicly reveal his theory of evolution in a world that held to the biblical creation ideal, and examines the fierce controversy that resulted from his work. 12,500 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.

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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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Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
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Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679429328
ISBN 13 
9780679429326
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