Title: Darwin's ghosts : in search of the first evolutionists /
Authors: Stott, Rebecca.
Publisher: Bloomsbury,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Darwin, Charles,; Darwin, Charles, Sources.; Evolution (Biology) History; Naturalists Biography; Natural history History; Life (Biology) Research History.; Biologists Biography; Scientists Biography; Biological Evolution; Science history; Science history Biography.
Abstract: Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different.
Contents: Darwin's list, Kent, 1859 -- Aristotle's Eyes, Lesbos, 344 BC -- The Worshipful Curiosity of Jahiz, Basra and Baghdad, 850 -- Leonardo and the potter, Milan, 1493; Paris, 1570 -- Trembley's Polyp, The Hague, 1740 -- The Consul of Cairo, Cairo, 1708 -- The Hotel of the Philosophers, Paris, 1749 -- Erasmus underground, Derbyshire, 1767 -- The Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 1800 -- The Sponge Philosopher, Edinburgh, 1826 -- The Encyclopedist, Edinburgh, 1844 -- Alfred Wallace's fevered dreams, Malay Archipelago, 1858.