Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 19, 1871

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Burkhardt (1912–2007), the founder of the Darwin Correspondence Project, was president of Bennington College, Vermont, 1947–1957, and president of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1957–74. Before founding the Darwin Correspondence Project in 1974, he was already at work on an edition of the papers of the philosopher William James. He received the Modern Language Association of America's first Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1991, the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History in 1997, the Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and a special citation for outstanding service to the history of science from the History of Science Society in 2005. James A. Secord has served as Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project since 2006. He is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. Besides his work for the Darwin Project, his research focuses on the history of science from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. His book, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (2000), won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society. Klappentext Get inside Charles Darwin's mind as he published Descent of Man, his first public statement on human evolution. Zusammenfassung This pivotal volume of Charles Darwin's letters will for the first time provide researchers and general readers with the full text of more than 800 letters written and received by Darwin in 1871! the year he made his long-awaited public statement on human evolution in Descent of Man. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of letters; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of provenances; Note on editorial policy; Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy; Abbreviations and symbols; The correspondence; Appendixes: 1. Translations; 2. Chronology; 3. Diplomas presented to Charles Darwin; 4. Presentation list for Descent; 5. Reviews of Descent; 6. Henrietta Emma Darwin's journal, 1871; 7. Darwin's Queries about expression; Manuscript alterations and comments; Biographical register and index to correspondents; Bibliography; Notes on manuscript sources; Index....

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• Authors: Frederick H. Secord Burkhardt, Charles Darwin, Charles Burkhardt Darwin, The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project
• Assisted by: Frederick Burkhardt (Editor), James Secord (Editor), Secord James (Editor), The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence (Editor), The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107016484
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01648-4
• No. of pages: 1116
• Series: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin; The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Diaries, letters & journals, Evolution, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, History of Science, Diaries, letters and journals, Published diaries, letters and journals