Darwin's sciences : how Charles Darwin voyaged from rocks to worms in his search for facts to explai...
Darwin's sciences : how Charles Darwin voyaged from rocks to worms in his search for facts to explai...
Darwin's sciences : how Charles Darwin voyaged from rocks to worms in his search for facts to explain how the earth, its geological features, and its inhabitants evolved / Duncan M. Porter and Peter W. Graham.
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Publisher
Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2016.
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G 2016/2114
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Darwin the geologist -- Darwin the zoologist -- Darwin the botanist -- Darwin the social scientist -- Coda : Darwin, worms, and the world.
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Publisher
Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2016.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
This book sheds light on Charles Darwin the person, drawing extensively on his correspondence, notes and autobiography, the accounts of his contemporaries and descendants, and cultural history, to uncover Darwin as a paradoxical figure who was both a conventional yet progressive country gentleman and an intellectually brave yet emotionally reluctan...
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Darwin's sciences : how Charles Darwin voyaged from rocks to worms in his search for facts to explain how the earth, its geological features, and its inhabitants evolved / Duncan M. Porter and Peter W. Graham.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version Porter, Duncan M., author. Darwin's sciences Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2015 9781119045786 (DLC) 2015011947
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G 2016/2114
Record Identifier
74VKVP04GeWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVP04GeWy
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ISBN
1444330349 (cloth)
9781444330359 (pbk.)
1444330357 (pbk.)
9781444330342 (cloth)
DDC
508.092 B
MMS ID
991023996216402626
