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开 本: 16开纸 张: 铜版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521127202
This highly illustrated collection of short essays provides a
critical assessment of Darwin both as a person and a scientist, and
provides a factual and engaging account of the collections held at
Cambridge University. Giving a sense of Darwin’s youth and energy
at the time of the Beagle voyage, and portraying his life and work
in the context of the lives and work of others, including his
family, this is an engaging account of the significance of Darwin’s
observations for his contemporaries and how his ideas inform modern
science.
· Provides a personal account of the man, his life and his work ·
Superbly illustrated in full colour with specimens, samples and
maps · Includes mini-biographies of the people who influenced
Darwin and helped him in his work
Foreword
1. All idle men and entomologists
2. Darwin material at Christ’s
3. Whirled around the world in a Ten Gun Brig
4. The Darwin Archive at Cambridge University Library
5. A little reading, thinking and hammering
6. Not a finished naturalist
7. The Darwin collection in the University Herbarium
8. Troubled spirits of another world
9. A certain hunter of beetles and pounder of rocks
10. The Darwin specimens in the Sedgwick Museum
11. Misery and vexation of spirit
12. Curious formed valleys, petrified shells, volcanoes and strange
scenery
13. For such facts would undermine the stability of species
14. The Darwin collections in the Zoology Museum
15. I hope my wanderings will not unfit me for a quiet life
Acknowledgements
Further reading
About the contributors
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