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Author : Robert Chambers
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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZD/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vestige of the Natural History of Creation written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226100739
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings written by Robert Chambers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published anonymously in 1844, Vestiges proved to be as controversial as its author expected. Integrating research in the burgeoning sciences of anthropology, geology, astronomy, biology, economics, and chemistry, it was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences to a history of creation. The author, whose identity was not revealed until 1884, was Robert Chambers, a leading Scottish writer and publisher. Vestiges reached a huge popular audience and was widely read by the social and intellectual elite. It sparked debate about natural law, setting the stage for the controversy over Darwin's Origin. In response to the surrounding debate and criticism, Chambers published Explanations: A Sequel, in which he offered a reasoned defense of his ideas about natural law, castigating what he saw as the narrowness of specialist science. With a new introduction by James Secord, a bibliography of reviews, and a new index, this volume adds to Vestiges and Explanations Chambers's earliest works on cosmology, an essay on Darwin, and an autobiographical essay, raising important issues about the changing meanings of popular science and religion and the rise of secular ideologies in Western culture.
Author : Ernst Haeckel
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Creation written by Ernst Haeckel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Mesler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248542
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life written by Bill Mesler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery: How did it begin? In this essential and illuminating history of Western science, Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II seek to answer the most crucial question in science: How did life begin? They trace the trials and triumphs of the iconoclastic scientists who have sought to solve the mystery, from Darwin’s theory of evolution to Crick and Watson’s unveiling of DNA. This fascinating exploration not only examines the origin-of-life question, but also interrogates the very nature of scientific discovery and objectivity.
Author : James A. Secord
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615825X
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Sensation written by James A. Secord and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09-20 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
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Author : Samuel Richard BOSANQUET
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Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”: its argument examined and exposed ... Second edition. [A criticism of the work by Robert Chambers.] written by Samuel Richard BOSANQUET and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Laing
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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." written by Samuel Laing and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734017890
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation written by Robert Chambers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
Author : Robert Chambers
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Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pascal Richet
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226712893
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Natural History of Time written by Pascal Richet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself. Richet begins his story with mythological traditions, which were heavily influenced by the seasons and almost uniformly viewed time cyclically. The linear history promulgated by Judaism, with its story of creation, was an exception, and it was that tradition that drove early Christian attempts to date the Earth. For instance, in 169 CE, the bishop of Antioch, for instance declared that the world had been in existence for “5,698 years and the odd months and days.” Until the mid-eighteenth century, such natural timescales derived from biblical chronologies prevailed, but, Richet demonstrates, with the Scientific Revolution geological and astronomical evidence for much longer timescales began to accumulate. Fossils and the developing science of geology provided compelling evidence for periods of millions and millions of years—a scale that even scientists had difficulty grasping. By the end of the twentieth century, new tools such as radiometric dating had demonstrated that the solar system is four and a half billion years old, and the universe itself about twice that, though controversial questions remain. The quest for time is a story of ingenuity and determination, and like a geologist, Pascal Richet carefully peels back the strata of that history, giving us a chance to marvel at each layer and truly appreciate how far our knowledge—and our planet—have come.
