Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131647318X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Quarterly Review
Author: “The” Quarterly Review
Author: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Heretic in Darwin's Court
Author: Ross A. SlottenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231130110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
During their lifetimes, Wallace and Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. This book explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of the Victorian traveler, scientist and spiritualist. His twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing his discovery of natural selection, the book then follows the remaining fifty years of Wallace's eccentric and entertaining life. In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues--sexual selection and the origin of the human mind--he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars.--From publisher description.
Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: A-L
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey
Author: Arthur Penrhyn StanleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Westminster Abbey
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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