
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution – found in his 1859 work The Origin of Species – shocked Victorian scientists, who equated Darwinism with blasphemy and atheism. But the religious issue never troubled Darwin, a deeply moral man if not a profoundly religious one. He believed that evolution by natural selection was not incompatible with belief in God, and the furor over his work shocked Darwin. Here, from the acclaimed historian Walter Karp, is the little-told story of the complex genius…
Author : Sandra Herbert | Pub Date: 2005-01-01 | Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 10 : 0801443482
ISBN 13 : 9780801443480
"Pleasure of imagination. . . . I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical."—from Charles Darw..
Author : Charles Darwin | Pub Date: 1902 | Publisher :
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Author : Peter J. Bowler | Pub Date: 1996-04-11 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 10 : 0521566681
ISBN 13 : 9780521566681
Upon publication, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, nonetheless underpinning the Victorian co..
Author : Charles Darwin | Pub Date: | Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 10 : 9781412819428
ISBN 13 : 1412819423
Although his name has become a household word after hepublished The Origin of the Species, a one-volume editionof his writings that covers the full gamut of his theoreticalas well ..
Author : Charles Darwin | Pub Date: 1879 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 10 : 0521815266
ISBN 13 : 9780521815260
Charles Darwin's book about his grandfather, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, is curiously fascinating. Before publication in 1879, it was shortened by 16%, with several of the cuts dir..
Author : Janet Browne | Pub Date: 2011-05-18 | Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 10 : 9780307793683
ISBN 13 : 0307793680
In 1858 Charles 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..
Author : Charles Darwin | Pub Date: 1887 | Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 10 : 0760769087
ISBN 13 : 9780760769089
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