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4.53 Claud Warren, 'Outlines of Hands'
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< Back to Introduction Claud Warren’s The Life-size Outlines of the Hands of Twenty-four Celebrated Persons was a ‘portfolio’, circulated in varying editions in 1881-2. It is an amateurish and rather eccentric work, without typographic letterpress –…
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- … Claud Warren’s The Life-size Outlines of the Hands of Twenty-four Celebrated Persons was a …
- … was crudely lithographed with the illustrations. The hands of a number of public figures – ranging …
- … or physiognomy was involved, but Warren repudiated the idea of fortune-telling. He maintained that …
- … to be featured. Warren does candidly admit that his analyses of his subjects’ characters were not …
- … rebuffs that he experienced in some cases, ‘The Success of the idea has been quite surprising, and …
- … ‘Charles Darwin; Scientific Philosopher’ was one of those who allegedly acquiesced and cooperated …
- … signature is also like Darwin’s real handwriting, although of course Warren could simply have copied …
- … “Fingerology” – for instance compare it with that of an Artist, or of a man devoid of reasoning …
- … still suffer martyrdom by misrepresentation, at the hands of the protectors of ‘State-Religion’. …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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- … to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was …
- … or honor his memory, and their name is legion’. Scrutiny of the list of over 650 subscribers in the …
- … down to five shillings or so, and some entries in the list of donors were for groups, whose …
- … was designed by Alfred Waterhouse as an imposing temple of the natural sciences, and opened to the …
- … This government-funded enterprise involved transference of the scientific collections of the …
- … in an assembly of high dignitaries – including even the Archbishop of Canterbury – and the leading …
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the …
- … Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and religion, and was the first …
- … a very influential work and had a long career in the history of science and religion and until …
- … 2. Victorian spiritualism and the boundaries of science Dr White: I’d like to …
- … the same time that he makes his first major criticism of the theory of natural selection as applied …
- … and that these are better explained by the action of a higher power. Darwin is clearly shocked by …
- … it can strike us today as very odd indeed that a scientist of Wallace’s calibre was actually …
- … reputation, scientifically. We tend to think always in terms of Darwin as the great scientist and …
- … what the real entities are in the universe. Is the world of nature simply a collection of material …
- … ordinands, Frederick Temple , who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. And it’s clear from that …
