Bill Jenkins

Evolution Before Darwin

Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804-1834

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Produktbeschreibung

Puts Edinburgh at the centre of pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles This book challenges the long-held perception that theories of evolution initially received a cold reception in British natural history circles. It shows that, in the late 1820s and 1830s, Edinburgh was witness to a veritable ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world - including speculation on the origin and evolution of life - at just the time when the young Charles Darwin was a student in the city. Highlighting the work of key evolutionary thinkers of the time, including Henry H. Cheek, Robert Grant, Robert Knox and Robert Jameson, author Bill Jenkins reveals the largely neglected role that Edinburgh and its medical school played in the history of evolutionary thought. Bill Jenkins is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of History at the University of St Andrews

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781474445788
• ISBN-10: 1474445780
• Artikelnr.: 56711448

Autorenporträt

Dr Bill Jenkins is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, working on a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled After the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, c.1790-c.1843. Jenkins received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and published several papers in key journals, including the Journal of the History of Biology, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies and British Journal for the History of Science

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Edinburgh's university and medical schools in the early
nineteenth century
The legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment
The University of Edinburgh at the beginning of the nineteenth century
The University of Edinburgh's medical school
Edinburgh's extra-mural anatomy schools
Chapter 3: Natural History in Edinburgh, 1779-1832
Natural history in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth century
Robert Jameson and the chair of natural history
Comparative anatomy at the extra-mural medical schools
Natural history, scientific and medical societies
Natural history and science journals
Chapter 4: Geology and evolution
The Wernerian model of earth history
Wernerians and Huttonians in Edinburgh
The story of life as a tale of progressive development
Wernerian geology and transformism
Werner, Lamarck and Geoffroy in Edinburgh
Chapter 5: Edinburgh and Paris
Contemporary transformism in France: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Étienne
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Lamarck in Scotland
The impact of Geoffroy's theories in Edinburgh
Chapter 6: The legacy of the 'Edinburgh Lamarckians'
The eclipse of transformism in Edinburgh
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Transmutation without progress: Robert Knox and Hewett Cottrell Watson
The legacy of Darwin's Edinburgh years
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Bibliography; Unpublished primary sources; Published primary sources;
Secondary sources