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Interview with Pietro Corsi

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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

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  • … see, the French scene deserves close attention. I think that people have been working – and doing …
  • … [included], but a lot of others as well: we build on each other’s work, which is natural. Germany’s …
  • … , but let’s say, ?the Institution of Science?) and people have also assumed that the science which …
  • … each of these dictionaries there is a huge coverage of what people felt important for the …
  • … distorting our appreciation at a very basic level: what were people talking about? Now, that …
  • … public press. Not only that, but he also produced, or had people writing for him, articles showing …
  • … more the French government moves to the right wing, the more people try to start saying that …
  • … officer of the Napoleonic army becomes a kind of person who people have to trust to put the country …
  • … to curb atheism, but even more worried [of] subversion and people not being friendly to the …
  • … professional structure, of the Anglican clergymen. I found people endorsing moderate forms of …
  • … of Noah’s ark. It is surprising the extent to which these people knew about Continental science. …
  • … I still believe up to the mid-1830s not many English people knew German. (The evidence of that is …
  • … academic climbing to a completely different mindset. But people always try to say how original they …
  • … more important. Let me give you one instance. For people like John Fleming , the Scottish …
  • … atheism implicit in Lamarck. By 1830 in England, a lot of people are really worried that Lamarckian …
  • … By 1834, the issue was almost academic within a lot of people, and William Whewell, in 1837, wrongly …
  • … at is that by the time in which Darwin sets to read these people – Lamarck, Bory de Saint-Vincent, …
  • … more [part of a] burning debate, [a] hot debate, on which people feel things are at stake. So I …
  • … that. I simply say that he’s tried to think, who are the people who said something [about evolution …
  • … who said something. And naturally so, because by 1860 these people were curiosities, whereas if you …
  • … a seat at the Academy of Sciences in botany, not in zoology. People felt challenged. The earliest …
  • … I think that is totally not true. But nevertheless, people who say that Lamarck cut no ice in France …
  • … So, variations are produced in which way? Well, amongst other things, they are also produced through …
  • … today, enjoy something which is unthinkable in England or in other European countries or the United …
  • … only one top science – it’s ours – and there cannot be other ones. 7. Darwin …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … the text of each written upside down with respect to the other. The editors of the  Correspondence …
  • … and contains only a small number of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin …
  • … of the first edition and indicated in the bibliography that other editions were available to Darwin. …
  • … read. The Darwin archive includes numerous references to other works he consulted which were not …
  • … never read. Many a book was at once transferred to the other heap, either marked with a cypher at …
  • … [DAR *119: 6v.] Read M r  Bennetts & other Edit. by Hon. & Rev. W. Herbert.— …
  • … edited some Agricult. Journ [ Annals of Agriculture, and other useful arts ] Highland …
  • … Big-buttocked calves. Read He has written Rural Economy of other counties ?+?.worth reading? …
  • … to October 1838— not much: scarcely worth looking at other numbers 25. Owen & Botelers …
  • … and West Indies . Translated from the Spanish. London. [Other eds.] *128: 159 Adams, …
  • … vegetation, and animals, compared with those of   other and similar regions . Boston. [Darwin …
  • … Ulisse. 1599–1603.  Ornithologiae . 3 vols. Bologna. [Other eds.]  128: 16 Alison, …
  • … of John Duke of   Marlborough . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.]  *119: 15 Alison, …
  • … Arabian night’s entertainments . 4 vols. London. [Other eds.]  119: 9b Anon. 1808. Some …
  • … and   an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead . London. [Other eds.]  *128: 176; 128: 17 …
  • … 1811.  Sense and sensibility: a novel . 3 vols. London. [Other eds.]  119: 9b ——. 1814.  …
  • … principle   of all evidence and expectation . London. [Other eds.]  119: 6a Bain, …
  • … 1841.  Passages in the life of a radical . Manchester. [Other eds.]  *119: 21; 119: 13b, 22b …
  • … to   natural history, husbandry, and physick . London. [Other eds.]  119: 11a Barrande, …
  • … from the German by William Johnston. 4 vols. London. [Other eds.]  *119: 15; 119: 22b …
  • … Italian [i.e., Giovanni Ruffini] . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, …
  • … several of his   letters . 2 vols. London and Dublin. [Other eds.]  *119: 15 Bernard, …
  • … 1656–1668 . Translated by Irving Brock. 2 vols. London. [Other eds.]  *119: 13, 22; 119: 22b …
  • … life by his brother (Alexander Bethune) . Edinburgh. [Other eds.]  119: 21b Bevan, Edward …
  • … 1822.  An account of the Abipones,   an equestrian people of Paraguay . Translated from Latin …
  • … population shewn   to be connected with the food of the people . London. [Other eds.]  119: 13a …
  • … and of the origin, language, agriculture, .   . . of the people. Founded on a series of annual …
  • … ——. 1847.  First impressions of England and its people . London. [Other eds.]  119: 20a …
  • … in 1855; with   notices of the country, government and people . London.  *128: 157 …

Journal of researches

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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…

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  • … the voyage, by ‘ studying the geographical range and other such subjects of the different branches …
  • … Back in England, however, they had begun to rub each other up the wrong way. Not only was Darwin …
  • … of the Narrative, he was increasingly dismayed by the other two volumes. The first, based on …
  • … adding that Charles Lyell ‘ says it beats all the other nonsense he has ever read on the subject ’ …
  • … that Darwin’s Journal was to be fettered by the other volumes, for although he should equally …
  • … that Darwin’s Journal would be more popular than the other two volumes, so, as early as …
  • … by Darwin for the ‘ the copies I presented to different people ’. Never having received a penny …
  • … told Lyell, adding that authors, ‘ who like you, educate people’s minds as well as teach them …
  • … reprinted and has been translated into many languages.  Other than the Origin of species , the …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … prose and poetry – down to the Chilian newspapers of the other day – narratives of exploitations – …
  • … – if not quite – equal to [ f.148v p.4 ] each other in that respect. End of the Preface …
  • … ships I know – (among others the one on whose conduct in other important respects I enlarged in …
  • … at twelve hours – or 180˚ of Longitude apart from each other is corroborated by the fact there seen …
  • … I only refer to it here – because some insolent fellow or other – probably a Master of a Merchant …
  • … in Juries of the Serfs of the trial of skulkers and all other criminals no cognizable by the laws of …
  • … now agree with Jonathan Wild, Monsieur Talleyrand, and other great men that – mischief-making is too …
  • … according to their usual practice – they kill all the old people, and men who fall into their hands …
  • … fate befalleth them – as the one dieth – so dieth the other – yea they have all one spirit. So that …
  • … seems to me (especially when looked at in connexion with the other proposal that I have made – of …
  • … – those Settlements were all originally made – or those people who have voluntarily gone to those …
  • … of witches and wizards – is as clearly – as any other that can be mentioned – a doctrine or …
  • … flocks – extorting first fruits and tithes from the poor people, whom they scarcely see, once in a …
  • … The democratic inclinations – to wit – of People whom I also represent as being Royalists par …
  • … occupied with that (formerly withheld) information – among other particulars – I shall shew how it …
  • … my remarks on the place – and the Settlers &c but, besides other withheld particulars that I …
  • … lying (as it does) considerably to the Northward of the other Isles of the Cocos – Vessels …
  • … She was (by Mr Ross’ assistance) got off (without any other important damage than the loss of her …
  • … whole of the bearings and distances, of the one, from the other – may be at once easily seen and …
  • … of the S.E. r n Isle which is about fifty and in a few other spots there are elevations of …
  • … was colonized – we have not as yet seen or heard of such people as “New South Welshmen” or “women” – …
  • … in the month of December, on board a Schooner, with these people and wrote to his brother – who was …
  • … round to Eastward of Madeira Island, and take him and these people from the Schooner lying there on …
  • … Salmond of the Bombay Marine) inquired concerning these people's condition “oh – they are my …
  • … documents were taken on board the ship and delivered to the people by the hands of two of the office …
  • … had formerly been.” The clerks said nothing – and the people not understanding the English writing – …
  • … subject. In reality – not more than five of these people had ever been legally purchased by …
  • … and fully understood by them. But most certainly they (these people) would not have listened in …
  • … Cape Colony Mr Hare purchased a farm-estate and set these people to work on it under an overseer or …
  • … – induced Mr H. to resolve on quitting and taking these people off with him – whilst he would be …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … the circumnavigation of HMS Beagle in 1831 to 1836. Our other substantial accounts of that …
  • … one hand and the texts written by FitzRoy and Darwin on the other. We can certainly understand the …
  • … of those who lived on Cocos-Keeling – whether enslaved people, indentured servants, or wage …
  • … matters. Thus, the manuscript illustrates how ships, people, goods, books and even clay soil (as …
  • … between and denunciation of both Whigs and Tories. Other political references include noteworthy …
  • … this lightly fictionalized account parallels many of his other reports on the settlement, published …
  • … the Volume in his hand – and heard him exclaiming to the other Lords – after reading these …
  • … Similarly, Ross elsewhere in the text  made reference to other readers, the publisher Colburn, a …
  • … than five years old – and having scarcely ever had any other important book in his possession until …
  • … or two. There are also frequent quotations extracted from other texts. Sometimes, this feature is …
  • … with numbers in square brackets.   Key people mentioned in the manuscript …
  • … Borneo , and in 1820 he sailed Hare and a party of his ‘people’ (slaves or servants) to Cape of …
  • … 1827. He claimed to be surprised to find Hare and his people already in residence on the northern …
  • … for the settlement. Hare wanted solitude, and control of his people; he was not interested in …
  • … children. Ross held him responsible for sharing surveys and other information too freely with …
  • … Cocos Keeling in 1830 (Ross says 1829 in this ms., but other records indicate March 1830) and wrote …
  • … between Malay labourers  and a British citizen. About 50 people left the settlement after this …

Interview with Randal Keynes

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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…

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  • … had an idea which he knew was going to be shocking to many people, and it's pretty clear that …
  • … science on the one hand and literature and the arts on the other seems too hard and fast? …
  • … ones in which his ideas were going to have great value to other people. He thought he might have …
  • … scraps . We have things we can work out from letters that other people wrote to him, especially …
  • … of the Origin of Species , only then, really, did people start asking him for his views. And …
  • … faith: why - the points I've made - easy or difficult; why people made it - the challenge of …
  • … I find it difficult to think of it as a real idea - that people really believed it - but I think we …
  • … that's very clear in his own writing and in his letters to other people: always questioning, …
  • … that they could share, perhaps, or at least respect in each other. Randal Keynes: Yes, …
  • … could get on together. They were clearly so close to each other, and they clearly loved each other
  • … lot to say. The first thing is that he was quite clear with other people in the village, other
  • … was a social institution to be supported because it guided other people - he was a man of his time: …
  • … a purely scientific observation, is presented by many people as a piece of autobiography. In …
  • … it as well as he could, for himself, in that passage, and in other passages where he comments on his …
  • … he thought we were basically social and helpful to each other, and that we made these social …
  • … think that he saw great value in co-operation, help to each other, charity, all of those kinds of …

Essay: Natural selection & natural theology

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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…

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  • … in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. …
  • … in the succession of species which differ from each other only in some details. To compare small …
  • … boat be developed into the scow, the skiff, the sloop, and other species of water-craft—the very …
  • … Creation . Anyhow, the one does not necessarily exclude the other. Variation and natural selection …
  • … species to a common ultimate origin—thus, and in various other ways, largely and legitimately …
  • … which now flourish are lineal (or unlineal) descendants of other and earlier sorts—it now concerns …
  • … which suggest hypotheses of derivation in some shape or other? Reasons there must be, and plausible …
  • … from seed. Many such races, it is allowed, differ from each other in structure and appearance as …
  • … 2. Species of the same genus are not distinguished from each other by equal amounts of difference. …
  • … thing, all or most of the species of a peculiar genus or other type are grouped in the same country, …
  • … familiar domesticated varieties of grain, of fowls, and of other animals, were pictured and …
  • … skill, are found in beds of the drift at Amiens (also in other places, both in France and England), …
  • … present time. To complete the connection of these primitive people with the fossil ages, the French …
  • … human races may perhaps be traced through the intervening people of the stone age, who were …
  • … and supernaturally created within the period which other species have survived. Some may even …
  • … be inevitable, perhaps from our inability to conceive of any other line of secondary causes in this …
  • … are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in …
  • … many things which are thus far utterly inexplicable upon any other scientific assumption. We …
  • … need not surprise us. The two views are made for each other, and, like the two counterpart pictures …
  • … same thing as to conclude the one to be the ancestor of the other. No doubt there are differences …
  • … By the one these are deemed quite compatible, by the other incompatible, with community of origin.  …
  • … can’t agree which) through natural variation, or other secondary cause, and some by original …
  • … and that contemporaneous species, similarly resembling each other, were not all created so, but have …
  • … now Europe, Asia America and Australia, differed from each other much as they now differ: in fact …
  • … may well account for their continuance; while, on the other hand, the more intense, however gradual, …
  • … that he by no means expects to convince old and experienced people, whose minds are stocked with a …
  • … belief nor unbelief. But your intellectually short-sighted people are apt to be preternaturally …
  • … or the other of every mooted question. In fact, most people, and some philosophers, refuse to …
  • … carried out, is doubtless tantamount to atheism. Yet most people believe that some were designed and …
  • … is probably the popular conception. Perhaps most thoughtful people oscillate from the middle view …

Henrietta Darwin's diary

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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…

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  • … round the week before & distributing papers & talking to the people if allowed. In some …
  • … her heart she w d  allow he had none. Mr. Maclagan on the other hand seems to have done a great …
  • … tht this really has any effect on their lives! & on the other hand if it hasn’t mustn’t it come …
  • … I cannot tell. How little one knows of the working of other minds. It is the gt. lesson one learns— …
  • … shades of meaning. I mean them to represent one & quite other is what they represent to another …
  • … Now  she can trace him in the character of others—but other than in herself she sh d  be hopeless …
  • … ones it will be said—but eno’ to prevent despair— one other conviction I have forgotten the worship …
  • … to take hold upon, for in some cases to turn your mind upon other subjects is simply impossible. How …
  • … about. I hope I have been worth while to my own dear people— but they are so good. Just at …
  • … to cultivate my mind— & last to try & make up to my people for losing me— to show the …
  • … I am quite sure to begin with that it is not because of other people. If no human being was ever to …
  • … outward & visible sign of the inward & spiritual grace. What other is possible but the …
  • … is the difficulty I feel in looking in the face leaving my people. It will be giving it up. I can be …

Was Darwin an ecologist?

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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.

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  • … of bright colours in seeds that have no nutritive value. Other subjects that Darwin worked on at …
  • … science studies the relationships of living things to each other and to their environment using up …
  • … rose to prominence in the 1970s, and which draws on the other three strands just mentioned, is a …
  • … what we consider to be ecology, look into the past for people doing just that, and call it, if not …
  • … though, it is important. When we try to understand what people do, a grasp of what they think they …
  • … By Darwin’s time the term was associated particularly with people who made collections and …
  • … was not unusual. The existence of God had been for most people a basic assumption that provided an …
  • … in science; he studied the right books, knew the right people, learnt the right skills, and …
  • … about. He acknowledged the influence of White, and other naturalists, upon him. However, …
  • … underlying assumptions of earlier natural historians. Many people believed that the natural world …
  • … climatological changes, and the pressure on resources from other organisms, the environment would …
  • … alone was lengthened to obtain honey from the Angræcum and other deep tubular flowers, those …
  • … law , p. 248). In order to convince Campbell and his other critics of the power of his …
  • … revised many times) is thrown into relief.   People Boole, Mary Everest. …

Search tips

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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…

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  • … date. By keyword or exact phrase in the biographies of people mentioned in the letters, and …
  • … phrase in the educational resources, essays, blog posts, and other contextual material on the …
  • … group identifiers (“flora” eg),  index terms such as people, institutions, and places, and some more …
  • … letter we aim to provide information about the original, or other source of our transcription where …
  • … letters will be added as funds become available. People:  The site has brief biographical …
  • … else mentioned in the letters.  A keyword search in “People” will search these biographical entries. …
  • … letters referring to a particular person? To find people mentioned in the letters, search …
  • … will also work, and will avoid possible confusion with other archival collections in Cambridge …

Essay: Evolutionary teleology

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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…

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  • … up as the orthodox doctrine, but which to St. Augustine and other learned Christian fathers would …
  • … means are adapted, both in these two cases and in any other that may hereafter become known, …
  • … purpose has ceased to suggest design to instructed people, except in cases where the agency of man …
  • … ‘ purpose has ceased to suggest design to instructed people, except in cases where the agency of …
  • … wing, can hardly ‘ cease to suggest design to instructed people. ’ And surely, in coming at his …
  • … law of parsimony, claim to be thus interpreted, unless some other hypothesis will better account for …
  • … seemingly must needs form, cannot be rivaled except by some other equally adequate for explanation, …
  • … and to offer in explanation of such beneficent provision no other word but Chance , seems as …
  • … in a whole time-keeper . . . Two cog-wheels, grasping each other, will be thought conclusive …
  • … one case is radically different from that performed in the other; there is no parallel, and Paley’s …
  • … Nor is man’s recognition of human workmanship, or of any other, dependent upon his comprehending how …
  • … or materially ‘ different from that performed in the other ’ as this writer would have us suppose. …
  • … is too wide for a sure inference from the one to the other. But the present question involves …
  • … the useful function in question could be established by no other instrument but one, is simply to …
  • … to one designing mind that they are the product of some other. If so, no amount of ignorance, or …
  • … processes, such as human digestion, being replaced by other and simpler ones in lower animals, or …
  • … preponderate, or the wavering balance may incline the other way. There are two lines of argument: …
  • … of their head, one eye being placed a little higher than the other. This arrangement has its utility …
  • … the anomaly is manifested, one of the eyes passing to the other side of the head. It is almost …
  • … far beyond the common apprehension. Seeds, eggs, and other germs, are designed to be plants and …
  • … only a minute portion is intercepted by the earth or other planets where some of it may be utilized …
  • … object of having seeds at all. So the same plant produces other flowers also, provided with a large …
  • … Similar considerations may apply to the mould-fungi and other very low organisms, with spores …
  • … how it is held. Darwinian evolution (whatever may be said of other kinds) is neither theistical nor …
  • … existed for this or that direct and special end, and for no other, can hardly be pressed to the …
  • … stock; and the competition of these species among each other for the ground they occupy, or the food …
  • … in the division of labor instituted by each colony; or, in other words, in the localization of the …

Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists

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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…

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  • … of natural history Charles Darwin). Most of the people in the album were faculty members of …
  • … history founded in Darwin's and Haeckel's honour, with two other Germans whose photographs …
  • … botanist,  Julius Wiesner .  Missing people Some of Darwin's German colleagues …

Interview with Tim Lewens

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Dr Tim Lewens is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Organisms and artifacts (2004), which examines the language and arguments for design in biology and philosophy, and of…

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  • … I think it’s aninteresting question about why it is that people call themselves Darwinians now. One …
  • … issues about God, issues that go to the very heart of what people have tended to think of as deep …
  • … of areas then it’s hardly surprising, I think, that some people are going to want to call themselves …
  • … – out of this view, in a way that may not happen for other influential scientists whose views, to be …
  • … that kind of all-encompassing aspect that, as I say, some people have viewed as certainly inherent …
  • … the current status of biology, which has expanded into the other domains, like psychology, like even …
  • … Dr Lewens: I think that’s right. One other thing I’d add to that, if I can, is: what’s usually …
  • … the idea of natural selection. One of the things that many people claim for the idea of natural …
  • … simple idea with extremely general application. And many people think that natural selection is …
  • … characterise natural selection in such a general way, then people begin to apply it to all kinds of …
  • … to have such an enormous significance and why, for some people, it is a kind of world view. It’s …

Language: Interview with Gregory Radick

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Darwin made a famous comment about parallels between changes in language and species change. Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, talks about the importance of the development of language to Darwin, what…

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  • … us how that would work? And for him, as for a number of other writers at the time, it’s imitation. …
  • … the cry of a predator, imitations of the sounds that other humans make when they’re in pain, or …
  • … that tended to survive, and to reproduce, and to make more people who were capable of doing the same …
  • … there’s a little scholarly debate, and on the one side are people who say that Darwin couldn’t …
  • … And that as they go up the scale of civilisation in other respects, so their language will go up. …
  • … are as lowly as the rest of these cultures, so lowly people speak lowly languages. Now this is a …
  • … missionary effort going in that part of the world with those people. So part of the surprise he was …
  • … groups, it was because, for their own reasons, a number of people came to think that the idea of a …
  • … Darwin’s writings on language, as with so many of his other writings, it’s amazing the extent to …
  • … Nearer to Darwin’s own day, I don’t think that most people who were already Darwinians just …
  • … right. And so what Darwin did by joining Müller on the other side of the debate over whether or not …

Visiting the Darwins

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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…'  In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister.  She described Charles…

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  • … to the floor— A grand piano at one end, a book-case at the other, two writing-tables, sofas, little …
  • … French physiologist Guillaume Benjamin Armand Duchenne of people whose facial muscles were being …
  • … The oldest daughter Henrietta is one of those people who grow most wonderfully on acquaintance. She …
  • … where were the two daughters, one about 26, the other about 19 or 20, & the son who is at …
  • … trimmed with pink ruches, bare arms but the new Cape,—the other in white bare>ge with bright …
  • … most cordial, simple manners— They were all very charming people, so unaffected & kind, so …
  • … in!” And we had regular challenges to find something the other had not read, & I triumphed in …
  • … her— The oldest daughter Henrietta is one of those people who grow most wonderfully on …
  • … The son is a pleasant young fellow of 20— There are four other sons; three older, (two at Cambridge) …
  • … to the floor— A grand piano at one end, a book-case at the other, two writing-tables, sofas, little …
  • … opposite the window & the sun shone cheerfully in all day— People sewed, or wrote, or scattered …
  • … the first, & then left us at the end generally, to help each other & ourselves; the butler …
  • … good bye to our most delightful visit & these dear, charming people—”I will never forgive you,” …
  • … me, that we should be in advance of them!— As for Sauquoit people they are decidedly shabby— Not a …

Interview with John Hedley Brooke

Summary

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…

Matches: 27 hits

  • … later years to campaign for this; and there were a number of other men of science who became …
  • … simply a collection of material bodies, or is there some other kind of invisible realm which can …
  • … in terms of the vacuum that had been created – for some people – by the challenge to Christianity …
  • … who manipulated tables and claimed to make contact with some other world? whether these claims could …
  • … the power of natural selection if you suggested there were other agencies at work in nature. So I do …
  • … in the way that most scientific research programs can. In other words, it seems like a rather …
  • … There is an interesting approach to this issue, which other philosophers of science have now taken …
  • … a difficult argument and I won’t actually pursue it here other than to say that if you had been a …
  • … one should place on natural selection as distinct from other evolutionary mechanisms. And the irony, …
  • … still be interpreted in ways that make sense to religious people and which are not seen to …
  • … how Darwin uses the conversion motif when discussing people who have adopted his theory. And Darwin …
  • … no information, insight, wisdom, can come from any source other than science. And if you take that …
  • … say, by Thomas Huxley or Ernst Haeckel ? are these people more typical of the manner in which …
  • … family reasons: he didn’t wish to inflict pain on Emma and other members of the family. I think he …
  • … the religious side and extremely dogmatic scientists at the other end of the spectrum, seem to feed …
  • … that religion can give, or even that sense in which people look to the natural world and feel able …
  • … as I say, it’s a kind of approximation, but for a lot of people, the unification comes from the fact …
  • … faith as an example ? you would tend, I think, to see other forms of what we would now call …
  • … the more over the years there was an encounter with so many other cultures ? including the Chinese, …
  • … accumulation of the encounter between Christianity and other cultures creates a situation where …
  • … there is an awareness that if you’re going to analyse other cultures, it may be helpful to have this …
  • … that I mentioned earlier. I mean, I have sometimes heard people say Christianity is not a religion. …
  • … you could take a figure like Isaac Newton, for whom many people, I think? he would be a kind of …
  • … the realm of religion and the realm of science. But on other levels, there remains that permeability …
  • … those kinds of explanation. But at the same time, on other levels, the boundaries are very permeable …
  • … down between science on the one side and religion on the other. I prefer, actually, to look at it, …
  • … not things: they’re practises , they’re what people do. Dr White: Well, that’s a …

Orchids

Summary

Why Orchids? Darwin  wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…

Matches: 7 hits

  • … were wide-ranging, one group would captivate Darwin like no other. In June 1855, Darwin added a …
  • … to be a considerable understatement, since not one but two other works appeared before Variation …
  • … hear what happens to the pollen-masses of the Bee Orchis in other districts or parts of England. ’ …
  • … to observe the bee orchid, and requesting flowers of some other orchids found on the island. Since …
  • … ‘ The subject of propagation is interesting to most people, & is treated in my paper so that …
  • … an artist to make drawings for the illustrations. On the other hand, he worried that if the book …
  • … a departure from the sober green binding that graced all his other works; the cloth was plum …

Photograph album of Dutch admirers

Summary

Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Accompanying the album was a handwritten list of the 217 people included, with their professional …
  • … The album included several women ( see a list of people in the album with biographical details ).  …
  • … ) Dutch correspondents Some of the people who contributed their photograph to …
  • … satisfaction which any writer can hope for, to interest other students, especially the younger ones. …
  • … asked his son George to translate into English. Two other people whose portraits featured …
  • … girl, & know what a dreadful grief it is; but then I had other children left to love.— Your loss …

Orundellico (Jemmy Button)

Summary

Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego.  He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego.  He was …
  • … sense of sympathy. Even though, as a member of a seafaring people, he could not understand Darwin’s …
  • … coat and button boots was now indistinguishable from any other native. FitzRoy could hardly contain …
  • … missionaries, he did not let them take his small son (or any other male children) to the Keppel …
  • … persuaded to go to Keppel Island in the hope of encouraging other Yahgan families to do the same. …
  • … 1864 he discovered that an epidemic had killed many of his people, including his father. Despite …
  • … Chapman, Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …

Gaston de Saporta

Summary

The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…

Matches: 8 hits

  • … fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, …
  • … and emotional expression between Homo sapiens and other simians over the course of his long …
  • … .  But were some parallels between human beings and other great apes too disquieting to use as …
  • … or its corollary—the attractiveness of human women to other apes. Darwin’s difficulty negotiating …
  • … a memoir of his 1865 expedition to Indonesia, that the Dyak people of Borneo “ tell many a tale …
  • … one for reasons that go beyond ideas about propriety. People remain both fascinated and disturbed by …
  • … was willing to accept a common ancestry for human beings and other apes, in some cases only as long …
  • … Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. …
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