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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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- … theories. 2. The situation in France Dr White: I think …
- … geology, but I don’t think that we have such a picture for France. I think the view that we have is …
- … investigation on ways of communicating science [in France before or during Darwin's career], …
- … whose name is Julien-Joseph Virey, very well known in France, in England as well, and in the United …
- … at the three years in prison, and you study what happens in France after 1825? In France after 1825? …
- … more the soldier of the Napoleonic army who comes back to France after being stranded in Russia for …
- … a strong supporter of Napoleon; had been forced to flee France for years, hiding in Belgium, Holland …
- … I’m sorry I’ve been too long – of the complexity of France: I have personally assumed, and I have …
- … movement towards the right. In 1825 the government [of France] tried to pass a legislation against …
- … It was the major attack against the freedom of expression in France. Even the reactionary writer …
- … of Darwin. I’m just wondering again, going back to France, if we see any comparable engagement in …
- … at a conference recently. I said that you do not have, in France, the same intensity and density of …
- … life sciences. And, in particular, one senior historian of France told me, well, Pietro, it’s not …
- … I’m still pretty confident that you do not have, in France, the same intense engagement in natural …
- … was owned by English clergymen. You do not have that in France. Moreover, in France, even during the …
- … about Continental science. I’m just focusing on France; people have been writing on [Joseph …
- … of] the reality.) So, briefly, you do not have in France, the same systematic and massive list of …
- … by 1835, to notice that none of that is coming from France. However, they almost overreacted. …
- … what difference does it really make then to the debate in France? We don’t have to talk about it as …
- … transformist thought? Prof Corsi: I think that in France, Darwin was looked at as a very …
- … But nevertheless, people who say that Lamarck cut no ice in France itself, well, they have to …
- … has been very little studied (the Geological Society in France had similar status to the Geological …
- … [James (Jim)] Secord, Simon Knell, marvellous studies; for France we have almost nothing)? in the …
- … of Darwin, [Heinrich Georg] Bronn , is widely read in France, and debated in France, precisely …
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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- … to soil [?Soulange-Bodin 1827]. He is Horticulturist in France. Michaux, according to Hooker …
- … (old Series). Mem. Geolog. Soc. Paris Studies on Chalk F. of France [Archiac 1846].— Gresly …
- … ] 13 numbers have been read Voyage à l’isle de France [Saint Pierre 1773] Voyage de l …
- … Elie de Beaumont’s 2 vol of memoirs on Geology of France [Dufrénoy and Élie de Beaumont 1830–8] & …
- … —— A. Young Six Months Tour [Young 1770] & Tour in France [Young 1792] nothing —— Crantz …
- … de la Geograph. d’Europe specially of central platform of France 8 fr. [Lecoq 1854–8] Read …
- … [Salt 1814] —— Boreau Flore du centre du France [Boreau 1840] June 5. Woodwards Rud …
- … & Arboriculture [Matthew 1831] Bull. Bot. Soc. de France [ Bulletin de la Société …
- … versants sud-ouest et nord-ouest du plateau central de la France. Memoires de la Société …
- … on Metastasio and on the present state of music in France and Italy . Translated from the …
- … Boreau, Alexandre. 1840. Flore du centre de la France; ou, description des plantes qui …
- … Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France . 3 vols. Paris. [Other eds.] 119: 9a …
- … Henry. 1848. The agriculture and rural economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; …
- … l’Académie Royale des Sciences de l’Institut de France . Histoire de l’Académie. Analyse des …
- … pour servir à une description géologique de la France . 4 vols. Paris. [Vols. 3 and 4 in Darwin …
- … Leçons de géologie pratique, professées au Collège de France, pendant l’année scolaire, 1843–44 . …
- … 119: 10a ——. 1847a. De la naturalisation en France du Lama, de l’Alpaca, et de la Vigogne. …
- … sur la distribution et les rapports des deux sexes en France.) Paris. *119: 6v.; 119: 20a …
- … Notes of a traveller on the social and political state of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and …
- … sur la végétation du plateau central de la France. 9 vols. Paris. [Darwin Library.] *128: …
- … their varieties, account of the merinos of Spain, France … Together with miscellaneous …
- … of a tour … in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and France in the years 1817–1819 . London. [Other …
- … History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France, from … 1807 to . …1814 . 6 …
- … some parts of Flanders, Holland, and the north of France, in the autumn of 1817. By the …
- … Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 2: 91–124. 119: 3a Prévost, Jean Louis …
- … Henri Bernadin de]. 1773. Voyage à l’Isle de France, à l’Isle de Bourbon . 2 vols. Neuchâtel. …
- … … the Duke of Wellington … in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 . Compiled by J. …
- … resources, and national prosperity, of the kingdom of France . 2 vols. Bury St Edmunds. [Other …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … 1 In 1859, Lyell visited several sites in France where flints that appeared to have been …
- … (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited sites in both France and Germany (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 …
- … Joseph Prestwich, Douglas Strutt Galton, and George Busk to France, to visit the Somme Valley. They …
- … Natural History Review based on visits to Switzerland, France, and Scotland (Lubbock 1862a, 1862b, …
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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- … (1) Secretary, Soc. Entomol. France (1) …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
2.9 Legros medallion, plaster model
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< Back to Introduction This plaster model for Legros’s bronze medallion of Darwin has an interesting provenance. It originally belonged to William Ernest Henley, the poet, journal editor and art critic, who was a close friend and associate of Legros.…
Suggested reading
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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … her parts of the manuscript while she was on holiday in France and Italy: ‘After reading once right …
- … theory served a number of polemical and political ends. In France, Darwin was proposed for a …
- … the Belgians have taught the members of the Institut de France a lesson,’ he wrote. ‘May all the …
- … disrupted for part of the year owing to the outbreak of war. France had declared war on Prussia on …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … of our time and country that unbelievers, instead of, as in France, honestly avowing their …
- … repulsive phenomenon affords a fresh demonstration of what France of the Regency and Pagan Rome long …
- … repulsive phenomenon affords a fresh demonstration of what France of the Regency, and Pagan Rome …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Mary Everest Boole
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Mary Everest was born in 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, daughter of Reverend Thomas Everest. Her uncle was George Everest, Surveyor General of India, after whom Mount Everest is named. Her family moved to France seeking to improve her father’s ill…
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- … after whom Mount Everest is named. Her family moved to France seeking to improve her father’s ill …
Science and Religion Interviews
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The importance of Darwin and the nineteenth century debates on science and religion for present day issues and concerns, such as intelligent design, are addressed in series of interviews with leading scientists, philosophers and historians.
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- … Here he discusses the reception of Darwin’s work in France, and the religious and other …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
The Darwin and Human Nature film series
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We chose four films to cover a broad chronology from the early 19th to the early 20th century; and a range of themes, including teaching Darwinism, slavery and race, degeneration in Victorian society, the boundaries between normal and abnormal in the…
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- … Starring: Yahima Torres, Andre Jacobs, Olivier Gourmet. France/Belgium 2010. 159 mins. In French …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … the continued large sale of this book in England, Germany & France has depended on my keeping up …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … to seeing. It is a Daguerreotype – a process invented in France in 1839 by Louise Jacque Mandé …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … Jacques Henri Bernardin de]. Voyage à l’Isle de France, . . . par un officier du Roi. Amsterdam, …
1.12 Marian Huxley, drawing
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< Back to Introduction Portrayals of Darwin by women in his social circle cannot be lumped together as the products of adoring amateurs. In 1878 he was sketched by Marian (‘Mady’) Huxley, who was then only in her late teens, but already a trained and…
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- … c.1887 onwards developed a form of dementia. She died in France, from pneumonia, on the way to the …
1.9 Rajon, etching after Ouless
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< Back to Introduction This large and impressive etching by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon reproduces Ouless’s oil portrait of Darwin of 1875, probably on the basis of an agreement between painter and engraver. The ‘over-hardness’ of effect…
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- … heads. According to Beraldi, Rajon’s wealthy clientele in France and Britain, later also in America, …
