The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 20, 1872
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107038448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 904 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. The letters are published chronologically: volume 20 includes letters from 1872, the year in which The expression of the emotions in man and animals was published, making ground-breaking use of photography. Also in this year, the sixth and final edition of On the origin of species was published, and Darwin resumed his work on carnivorous plants and plant movement, finding unexpected similarities between the plant and animal kingdoms.. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century
Darwin Correspondence in later years AS the Correspondence gets into Darwin's later years it becomes filled up with a lot of trivia from people who want in on the action. Nevertheless it is still the backbone for research on the life of Darwin. It is doing a fantastic job.. NHCowboy said Five Stars. wonderful insights into the life of one of my heros
Review of volumes 19 and 20: "The editing and organization of these volumes is, as always, superb; the Darwin Correspondence really does set the standard against which all comparable projects have to be measured. No Victorianist should be without them." Jim Endersby, British Journal for the History of Science . In addition to a wonderfully erudite editorial apparatus (the footnotes alone contain a wealth of invaluable information), all the surviving letters Darwin received are published as well as by dates, topics and so on the importance and usefulness of these volumes go well beyond the world of Darwin, or even studies of the many forms of nineteenth-century evolutionism
He received the Modern Language Association of America's first Morton N. Secord has served as Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project since 2006. Besides his work for the Darwin Project, his research focuses on the history of science from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1991, the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History in 1997, t