Janet Browne, trained as a zoologist and historian of science, is a lecturer in the history of biology at the Wellcome Institute in London. She was formerly a research fellow at Harvard University and associate editor of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin. She is the author of many scholarly papers and several books, including The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography.
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Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than a hundred years after his death. Yet only now, with the publication of Voyaging, the first of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as man and as scientist. Drawing upon much new material, supported by an unmatched acquaintance with both the intellectual setting and the voluminous sources, Janet Browne has at last been able to unravel the central enigma of Darwin's career: how did this amiable young gentleman, born into a prosperous provincial English family, grow into a thinker capable of challenging the most basic principles of religion and science? The dramatic story of Voyaging takes us from agonizing personal challenges to the exhilaration of discovery; we see a young, inquisitive Darwin gradually mature, shaping, refining, and finally setting forth the ideas that would at last fall upon the world like a thunderclap in The Origin of Species.
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评分作者下周要来本所做讲座,并且要开设两天的“科学史中的人生和传记写作”专题课程。。今天所长召集“学员”一起做了一个课前准备。特别推荐我读她的著作。。没想到是这么大部头的书,还只是卷一。。
评分作者下周要来本所做讲座,并且要开设两天的“科学史中的人生和传记写作”专题课程。。今天所长召集“学员”一起做了一个课前准备。特别推荐我读她的著作。。没想到是这么大部头的书,还只是卷一。。
评分这是我读过最好的传记了。作者功夫极其扎实..prose极好..看名字应该是英国人steady and smooth..轻轻松松从The Correspondence of Charles Darwin选材料来写portrait..今年要找到她所有的书全部看完..竟然是哈佛的教授..
评分读这本书收获很大,帮助自己理解进化论,理解科学史,理解维多利亚时代英国社会,最大的收获来自理解科学方法,一个理论来自何处怎样成形,如何从事实到理论再回到事实。此书的可读性比一本好小说也一点不次,达尔文环球航行的始末尤为激动人心。希望以后看完下卷能写篇书评
Charles Darwin 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书