Caden C. Testa, Piers J. Hale

Evolution in Victorian Britain

Volume I: Evolution Before Darwin

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides the readers with a broad but detailed consideration of a wide array of transmutationist thinkers who published before Darwin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9781032791128
• ISBN-10: 1032791128
• Artikelnr.: 71639759

Autorenporträt

Piers J. Hale is a scholar of nineteenth-century science, with a specialisation in the history of the social and cultural implications of evolution. In his book Political Descent. Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England (2014), Hale provided a broad overview of the political and moral implications that nineteenth-century Britons took the idea of evolution to have. Caden C. Testa is a senior graduate student in the history of science and is editorial assistant to the bibliographer of the History of Science Society. He is a scholar of the history of evolutionary ideas with a specialization in Lamarck's transformist philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1. Evolution before Darwin Caden C. Testa and Piers J. Hale Acknowledgements General introduction: "Evolution in Victorian Britain" Volume 1 introduction: "Mapping Evolutionary Ideas in Britain in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century" Preface 1. Alfred
Lord Tennyson
"In Memoriam A. A. H." (London: Edward Moxon
1850). Part 1: The Enlightenment 2. Georges Louis Leclerc
the Comte de Buffon
"Of the Degeneration of Animals" (1766) reprinted in Buffon's Natural History containing A Theory of the Earth
A General History of Man
of Brute Creation
and of Vegetables
Minerals &c. From the French with notes buy the Translator (London: J.S. Barr
1792). 3. William Godwin
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its influence on General Virtue and Happiness
(2 vols.) (Dublin: Luke White
1793). 4. Nicolas de Condorcet
Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind. Being a Posthumous Work of the Late M. DE CONDORCET (London: J. Johnson
1795)
pp. 370-1 5. Thomas Robert Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population
(London
J. Johnson
1798)
pp. 1
3-9
49-54
110
111-14. 6. Erasmus Darwin
Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life
(2 vols.) (Dublin: P. Byrne & W. Jones
1794)
478
498-9
500-9
519-21. 7. Erasmus Darwin
The Temple of Nature. Or
The Origin of Society. A Poem
with Philosophical Notes (London: J. Johnson
1803)
pp.1
19
26
33
34
35-7
153-9. 8. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
On the Natural Variety of Mankind (De generis humani)
(3rd edn. 1795)
in The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
edited by Thomas Bendyshe
(London: Longman
Green
Longman
Roberts
& Green
1865)
pp.188-206. 9. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Zoological Philosophy (tr. Hugh Elliot; London: Macmillan and Co.
1914)
pp. 35-40
44-6
106-13
128-9
169-73. 10. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
"Gall's System" in Wheeler and Barbour's The Lamarck Manuscripts at Harvard (Cambridge
Mass.: Harvard University Press
1933)
pp.133
134-5. 11. [Lockhart Muirhead]
Review of Lamarck's Philosophie Zoologique
Monthly Review
55 (August 1811)
pp. 473-84
5 (April 1813)
pp. 481- 90. Part 2. Edinburgh Transmutationists 12. [Albrecht Rengger]
"Observations on the Nature and Importance of Geology"
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
(Oct. 1826)
pp. 293-302. 13. [André Étienne Daubert de Férussac]
"Of the Changes which Life has Experienced on the Globe"
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
(1827)
pp. 298-301. 14. [Étienne Geoffroy St-Hilaire (trans. Alexandre Bertand]
"For the Continuity of the Animal Kingdom by Means of Generation from the First Ages of the World to the Present Times"
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
(April 1829)
pp.152-5. (Translation of Geoffroy's March 23 1829 paper to the Academie des Sciences
first appeared in The Globe.) 15. Robert Knox
"Inquiry into the Origin and Characteristic Difference of the Native Races inhabiting the Extra-Tropical part of Southern Africa"
Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society
v.5
(Edinburgh: 1824)
pp. 206-19. 16. Robert Knox
"Contributions to the Philosophy of Zoology with Special Reference to the Natural History of Man"
The Lancet
July 14th 1855
pp.24-6. 17. [John Gordon]
"The Doctrines of Gall and Spurzheim"
Edinburgh Review 25 (June 1815)
pp. 227-29
247-54
268. 18. George Combe
The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects (Edinburgh: John Anderson
& London: Longman & Co.
1828)
pp.143
145-56
160
164-6. Part 3. The Developmental Hypothesis in Mid-Victorian Britain 19. Charles Lyell
Principles of Geology
Vol. 2. (London
John Murray
1832)
pp. 1-19
20-21. 20. W. B. Carpenter
Principles of General and Comparative Physiology
Intended as an Introduction to the Study of Human Physiology and as a Study Guide to the Pursuit of Natural History (London: John Churchill
1839)
pp. x
129-39
414-24
463-4. 21. "Carpenter's Principles of General and Comparative Physiology"
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal 53 (1840)
pp. 213-28. 22. [Charles Southwell & William Chilton]
"Theory of Regular Gradation"
Oracle of Reason
2 vols. (1842-3)
vol 1
pp. 5-6
Vol. 2
pp. 5-7
21-3
219-21
229-30
253-4
279-80
308-9
318-19
325
332-4
340-2
347-8
378-9. 23. [Robert Chambers] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (London: John Churchill
1844); (London: George Routledge & Sons
1887)
pp. 145-65
174
176-7. 24. Herbert Spencer
"The Developmental Hypothesis"
The Leader
(March 1852)
pp. 280-1. 25. Herbert Spencer
"A Theory of Population
Deduced from the General Law of Animal Fertility"
Westminster Review
57 (1852)
pp. 9-10
12-13
22
23-7
30-5. 26. Herbert Spencer
"Progress: Its Law and Cause"
The Westminster Review
67 (April 1857)
pp. 445-85. 27. Baden Powell
Essay 3
"On the Philosophy of Creation"
Essays in the Spirit of the Inductive Philosophy
The Unity of Worlds
and the Philosophy of Creation (London: Longman
Green
Brown
& Longmans
1855)
pp. 329-30
337
342-3
349-51
369-72
376-7
380
391
392-5
398-402
404-5
408-18
424. 28. Alfred Russel Wallace
"On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species"
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
16 (September 1855)
16
pp.184-96. 29. Alfred Russel Wallace
"On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type"
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society
(August 1858)
pp. 53-62. Part 4. The Historical Sketch 30. Charles Darwin
"An Historical Sketch
" in On the Origin of Species by means of natural Selection
or
the preservation of the favoured races in the struggle for life 6th ed. (London: John Murray
1872). 31. P. Matthew
"Nature's Law of Selection"
Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (7 April 1860)
pp. 312-3. 32. William Charles Wells
Two Essays: upon a single vision with two eyes
the other on dew
including appendix
An account of a female of the white race of mankind
part of whose skin resembles that of a negro
with some observations on the cause of the differences in colour and form between the white and negro races of man(Constable
London. 1818)
pp. 431-8. 33. William Herbert
"On the Production of Hybrid Vegetables; With the Results of Many Experiments Made in the Investigation of the Subject. In a Letter to the Secretary"
Transactions of the Horticultural Society
4 (1822)
pp. 15-22
47. (London: J. Ridgeway
1837)
p.19-20
337-40. Bibliography Index