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Darwin : for the love of science / edited by Andrew Kelly and Melanie Kelly
de Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 [author] Kelly, Andrew and Melanie [editors]
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Bristol : Bristol Cultural Development Partnership, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; 280 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm. Notes; A volume of essays commissioned as part of the celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-273) and index.Contents; Charles Darwin : the life -- Charles Lyell and modern geology -- Joseph Dalton Hooker and plant exploration -- Alfred Russel Wallace : naturalist -- The Darwins and the Wedgwoods -- Carl von Linn� and plant taxonomy -- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck's evolutionary theory -- The voyage of the Beagle : a chronicle -- Surveying instruments -- Robert Fitzroy and shipping forecasts -- The voyages of Captain Cook -- Charles Darwin and Victorian travel writing -- Natural history illustration ; seventeenth to nineteenth century -- Charles Darwin's On the origin of species -- The Oxford debate -- T.H. Huxley : Darwin's bulldog -- Social Darwinism and eugenics -- Samuel Butler and the Darwins -- Fossils, dinosaurs and Richard Owen -- Popular interest in natural history -- Darwinism and God -- Dayton, 1925: Dover, 2005 -- Revisiting Darwin's voyage -- Darwin : the legacies. Subjects; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882. Lyell, Charles Sir 1797-1875. Hooker, Joseph Dalton 1817-1911. Wallace, Alfred Russel 1823-1913. Linn�, Carl von 1707-1778. Lamarck, Jean Baptiste. Fitzroy, Robert 1805-1865. Cook, James 1728-1779. Huxley, Thomas Henry 1825-1895. Butler, Samuel 1835-1902. Owen, Richard 1804-1892. Wedgwood family.
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- Darwin : for the love of science / edited by Andrew Kelly and Melanie Kelly
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- Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 [author] Kelly, Andrew and Melanie [editors]
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- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0955074223
- ISBN 13
- 9780955074226
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- Bristol : Bristol Cultural Development Partnership
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- 2009
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