| Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bowler, Peter J. (Author), Knight, David (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0521562228 ISBN-13: 9780521562225 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $97.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: There can be no doubt of Charles Darwin's major role in the development of modern science and thought. Darwin has become an almost mythical figure in the emergence of modern culture; yet he was by no means the first person to publish evolutionary ideas and his theory of natural selection was not generally accepted by his contemporaries. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology - Science | History |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96176241 |
| Series: Cambridge Science Biographies Series |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.2" W x 9.21" (1.33 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Upon publication, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, nonetheless underpinning the Victorian concept of progress. It still evokes powerful and contradictory responses today. Peter Bowler's study of Darwin's life, first published in 1990, combines biography and cultural history. Emphasizing in particular the impact of Darwin's work, he shows how Darwin's contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of his thinking that are considered scientifically important today. He also demonstrates that Darwin was a product of his time, but he also transcended it by creating an idea capable of being exploited by twentieth-century scientists and intellectuals who had very different values from his own. |
