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Darwin's Ghosts : In Search of the First Evolutionists by Rebecca Stott is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Darwin's Ghosts : In Search of the First Evolutionists about?
Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's own grandfather among them.For all the excuses that leapt to mind - publication had been rushed; he hadn't been well - Darwin knew he had made a grave error in omitting to mention his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace these natural philosophers, he found that history had already forgotten them...In Darwin's Ghosts, historian and novelist Rebecca Stott rediscovers Aristotle walking the shores of Lesbos with his pupils and Leonardo da Vinci searching for fossils in the mine shafts of the Tuscan hills; Diderot, in Paris, under the surveillance of the secret police, exploring the origins of species, and the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes first recognising proof
Who reads Darwin's Ghosts : In Search of the First Evolutionists?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rebecca Stott
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781408831014
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (53 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14