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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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- … Baptiste de] Lamarck and [Georges] Cuvier and [Etienne] Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, but I’m not sure …
- … few main actors – the ones you mentioned: Cuvier, Lamarck, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – and we have not …
- … no-one can deny the centrality of Cuvier and later on, well, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and also the …
- … you realise how much concentration on Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire has been distorting our …
- … against Cuvier, and he was one of the earliest promoters of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in the public …
- … science who had visited Paris and had become friendly with Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Now, in a …
- … of Charles Lyell, the debate I was sketching before – Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, Cuvier, Bory de Saint …
- … to read these people – Lamarck, Bory de Saint-Vincent, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and others – they have …
- … The French were aware of Lamarck and in fact, in the 1850s Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s son - just to …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Geikie, James (13) Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore (2) …
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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- … de l’organization des hommes & des Animaux by Isid. Geoffroy de S t Hilaire 1832 [I. Geoffroy …
- … et vices de conformation ou Traité de Tératologie, par I. Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire, 3 vols. 8vo. et …
- … Zoologie Generale. Iside. St Hilaire [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1841]— Some wonderful facts on …
- … generales sur les Mammif. Isid. G. St. Hilaire. 1826? [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826] facts on …
- … (read) G. St. Hilaire Progress de un Naturalist [E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1835] (Gerard …
- … th . Essais de Zoologie Generale. Isid. G. St. Hilaire: [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1841] d[itt]o: …
- … March I. G. St. Hilaire Anomalies 3. vols. [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1832–7] Wilkes [Wilkes …
- … Read Is. St. Hilaire de la Domest. du Llama 1848 [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1847a] …
- … —— 27 th . Hist. Nat. Gen. de Regnes Organ. Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire [I. Geoffroy Saint …
- … of Mankind [J. C. Nott and Gliddon 1854] 26 Vie de Geoffroy Saint Hilaire [I. Geoffroy Saint …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
4.27 'Four founders of Darwinismus'
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< Back to Introduction In 1869-70 Darwin had declined to be photographed with Alfred Russel Wallace for a German publication, whose author had intended to show them as joint discoverers of natural selection. However, in 1873 he suffered a much…
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- … exponents of Darwinism’. Here Jean Lamarck and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire are pictured as …
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
