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Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume II: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution book cover

1st Edition

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain Volume II: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution

Edited By Charles H. Pence Copyright 2024
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science reconfigured the ways in which practitioners would treat the sciences of "deep time" – especially geology and the new theory of natural selection.... Read more

Volume 2: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution

General Introduction

Volume 2 Introduction

Part 1: The Continental Traditions

1. Georges Cuvier, “View of the Relations Which Exist Amongst the Variations of the Several Organs”, from Lectures on Comparative Anatomy (1802 [1800]), pp. 46–61

2. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy¸ tr. Hugh Elliott (1809, tr. 1914), pp. 19–21, 35–39, 56–61, 112–114, 126–127

3. Richard Owen, “Report on the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. 16 (1846), pp. 169–170, 173–176, 248–251, 339–340

 

Part 2: Uniformity and Catastrophe in Geology

4. John Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), pp. 510–528

5. William Buckland, “Volcanic Rocks, Basalt and Trap” and “Primary Stratified Rocks”, from Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836), pp. 44–56

6. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Vol. 1 (1830), pp. 75–91

7. Adam Sedgwick, “Address to the Geological Society, Delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, by the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. &c. On Retiring from the President’s Chair”, The Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 9, pp. 298–308, 312–317

 

Part 3: The History of Life

8. William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836), pp. 538–552

9. Robert Chambers, “Hypothesis of the Development of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdom”, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 4th ed., (1845), pp. 195–216

10. Adam Sedgwick, “[Review of] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”, The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 82 (1845), pp. 1–10

11. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (excerpts), (1859), pp. 7–14, 34–43, 80–96, 111–130, 279–302, 329–336

12. Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinism (1889), pp. 445–446, 461–478

 

Part 4: After Darwin: Responding to the Origin

13. Fleeming Jenkin, “[Review of] The Origin of Species”, North British Review, Vol. 46 (June 1867), pp. 277–286, 317–318

14. Adam Sedgwick, “Objections to Mr. Darwin’s Theory of the Origin of Species”, The Spectator, Vol. 33 (1860), pp. 285–286

15. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, “Sex and Evolution”, The Sexes Throughout Nature (1875), pp. 11–23

16. St. George Jackson Mivart, On the Genesis of Species, 2nd ed. (1871), pp. 290–302

 

Bibliography

 

Index

 

Biography

Dr. Charles H. Pence is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Science and Society (CEFISES) at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

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