Richard S. Owen

The Life of Richard Owen

With the Scientific Portions Revised by C. Davies Sherborn and an Essay on Owen's Position in Anatomical Science by Th

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Produktbeschreibung

A two-volume biography from 1894 of the brilliant anatomist who founded the Natural History Museum, but opposed Darwin's evolutionary theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9781108037747
• ISBN-10: 1108037747
• Artikelnr.: 34448957

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. 1804-24. Parentage
2. 1824-33. Edinburgh University
3. 1833-6. Eton in 1833
4. 1837-8. Hunterian Professor and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the College of Surgeons, 1837
5. 1839-40. Foundation of the Microscopical Society
6. 1841-2. Hunterian Lectures
7. 1843-4. Further evidence of the existence of the 'Dinoris'
8. Owen's opinion of the 'Vestiges of Creation'
9. 1846-7. Owen's proposal of a national collection of fossil and recent comparative anatomy
10. 1848-9. 'The Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton', 1848
11. 1850-1. The Megatherium
12. 1852-3. Delight in country life.