The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 8. 1860
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Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
- Janet Browne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Duncan M. Porter, Cambridge University Library
- Marsha Richmond, Cambridge University Library
- Date Published: March 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521442411
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Volume 8 opens with Darwin eagerly scrutinizing each new review, as one by one all the major media of the day carried notices of the book. To those who express their views privately in letters, Darwin responds patiently and thoughtfully, answering their objections and attempting to guide their fuller understanding of the operation of natural selection. His more personal thoughts emerge in letters to his friends Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell, and Thomas Henry Huxley. This volume presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how Victorians coped with a theory that many recognized would revolutionize thinking about the organic world and human ancestry.
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- Covers the continuing controversy stimulated by publication of the Origin of Species
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"...presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how Victorians coped with a theory that many recognized would revolutionize thinking about the organic world and human ancestry." The Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
See more reviews"...Marked by the same thorough and painstaking scholarship as earlier volumes, the eighth volume of the Darwin correspondence provides a splendid documentary record of the life of Darwin and his circle through a most eventful year." Leonard G. Wilson, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
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- Date Published: March 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521442411
- length: 824 pages
- dimensions: 240 x 162 x 48 mm
- weight: 1.51kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of provenances
Note on editorial policy
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols
The Correspondence, 1860
Appendixes
Manuscript alterations and comments
Bibliography
Bibliographical register and index to correspondents
Index.
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