HIMMELFARB: Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996)

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Type
Academic History
Subjects
History & Military
ISBN
9781566631068
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Publisher
Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
ISBN-10
1566631068
ISBN-13
9781566631068
eBay Product ID (ePID)
868412

Product Key Features

Edition
3
Book Title
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
Number of Pages
523 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, General, World, Historical, Science & Technology
Publication Year
1996
Features
Reprint
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-026424
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"Absorbing, well written, and splendidly organized." --I. Bernard Cohen "An illuminating contribution...a dramatic story." -- Yale Review "A thorough and masterly book punctuated with a delicate sense of humor." -- Times Literary Supplement "The book will place in clearer perspective the role of Darwin in nineteenth-century thought." --Loren Eiseley, The New York Times
Dewey Decimal
575.01/62
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
A biographical, historical, and philosophical study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. A thorough and masterly book. --Times Literary Supplement, A biographical, historical, and philosophical study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. "A thorough and masterly book."- Times Literary Supplement ., A biographical, historical, and philosophical study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. "A thorough and masterly book."--Times Literary Supplement., In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. Touching on biography, history, and philosophy, she traces the origins and development of Darwin's views against the opinions of his time; assesses the influences on him; and shows what he intended his theory to mean, what his readers took it to mean, and what it has in fact meant. By such a route Ms. Himmelfarb recaptures "a sense of how a scientist, with the most innocent of intentions and the best of faith, can give birth to a theory that has an ancestry and a posterity of which he may be ignorant and a life of its own over which he has no control. "A thorough and masterly book punctuated with a delicate sense of humor.... Until he has read, marked, learnt and inwardly digested this authoritative volume, no one should presume henceforth to speak on Darwin and Darwinism." Times Literary Supplement "An illuminating contribution...a dramatic story."--Yale Review "Absorbing, well written, and splendidly organized."--I. Bernard Cohen, In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. Touching on biography, history, and philosophy, she traces the origins and development of Darwin's views against the opinions of his time; assesses the influences on him; and shows what he intended his theory to mean, what his readers took it to mean, and what it has in fact meant. By such a route Ms. Himmelfarb recaptures "a sense of how a scientist, with the most innocent of intentions and the best of faith, can give birth to a theory that has an ancestry and a posterity of which he may be ignorant and a life of its own over which he has no control. "A thorough and masterly book punctuated with a delicate sense of humor.... Until he has read, marked, learnt and inwardly digested this authoritative volume, no one should presume henceforth to speak on Darwin and Darwinism." Times Literary Supplement "An illuminating contribution...a dramatic story."- Yale Review "Absorbing, well written, and splendidly organized."-I. Bernard Cohen
LC Classification Number
QH31.D2H57 1996

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