Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings

Summary

Originally published anonymously in 1844, "Vestiges" was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences to a history of creation. This volume includes Chambers's earliest works on cosmology, an essay on Darwin and an autobiographical essay. It also features a new introduction by James Secord.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Chambers, Chambers Robert
• Assisted by: James A. Secord (Editor), Secord James A. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.1994
• EAN: 9780226100739
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10073-9
• No. of pages: 770
• Dimensions: 14 mm x 22 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Essays, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, SCIENCE / Essays, Literary essays, Earth Sciences, Evolution / Evolutionary biology