Charles Darwin
Subtitle: The Naturalist Who Started a Scientific Revolution
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: November 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786710478
Subjects: Naturalists; England; Organic Evolution; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography/Autobiography; Life Sciences - Evolution; Biography; 1809-1882; Darwin, Charles,
First sentence: A country doctor with a wealthy clientele needed a proper house.
Description: "Cyril Aydon's account combines historical accuracy with a lucid overview of the science. He explains what The Origin of Species was about, and offers a ringside seat at the splendid row that followed publication. In an extended postscript, the author follows the changing fortunes of Darwinian theories according to fashions in intellectual thought, and in the context of two centuries of scientific speculation and discovery.

With conflict still raising its head in both the USA and the UK about the teaching of creationism alongside or instead of evolution in our schools, this book allows us to appreciate fully the greatness and the humanity of the father of evolutionary theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Diagram of the Darwin-Wedgwood connection; title: Introduction; title: A note on money values; title: Prologue; title: A man of substance; title: A golden childhood; title: False starts; title: Enter Fitzroy; title: The great adventure; title: Southern lands; title: Earthquakes and islands; title: Homecoming; title: A married man; title: Secrets and sorrows; title: Forced into the open; title: The deed is done; title: The battle rages; title: Late harvest; title: Last days; title: A nation says goodbye; title: Postscript : A backward look; title: Appendixes.; title: List of dates; title: Down House; title: Further reading