A popular portrayal of the great naturalist Charles Darwin explores both the man and the scientist, revealing a wealthy man who was able to bankroll his scientific interests and discussing his innovative contributions to the fields of geology, ecology, and, above all, evolutionary theory. Reprint.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
This is complete edition contains all of Darwin's published books, featuring definitive texts recording original pagination with Darwin's indexes retained.
34 Mrs. Miller judged her moment well. Flourishing sales brought her the money that had somehow never materialised when her husband was alive. At the same time, Robert Grant, Darwin's old acquaintance from Edinburgh, ...
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith James A. Secord, Alison M. Pearn ... Is this not so- be that as it may I have just got Weddells monograph of Urticæ from binder back & as I told you that I thought it would prove as ...
Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan M. Porter, Sheila A. Dean, Paul S. White, and Sarah Wilmot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ———. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 13, 1865. Supplement to the Correspondence ...
This first unabridged edition, edited by Desmond King-Hele, includes all that Charles originally intended, the cuts being restored and printed in italics. Erasmus Darwin was one of the leading intellectuals of the eighteenth century.
Here, from the acclaimed historian Walter Karp, is the little-told story of the complex genius who decoded one of the world's greatest mysteries.
Elegantly written, extensively illustrated, and informed by the author's prodigious research in Darwin's papers and in the nineteenth-century history of earth sciences, Charles Darwin, Geologist provides a fresh perspective on the life and ...
Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character, for his family. He states that he started writing it on about May 28, 1876 and had finished it by August 3.