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The true story of Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858), one of the most remarkable female travellers who ever lived - a housewife who decided to follow her dreams despite the strong disapproval of society. Hers is a tale that culminates in spies, intrigue, a botched revolution and a remarkable career cut tragically short by one voyage too many.

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One of the most significant figures in 19th and 20th century science, his thoughts on evolution changed the way many viewed the world and our existence. This title takes a look at the life of this incredible and significant man - from his groundbreaking publications to Darwinism and his theories on evolution.

Through a reassessment of the science of phrenology, particularly the work of George Combe, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism challenges the orthodoxy that Charles Darwin's 1859 work The Origin of Species was the most influential work of Victorian science. Instead it is argued that Combe's phrenological work, The Constitution of Man in Relation to External Objects, published thirty one years previously, not only out...

Through a reassessment of the science of phrenology, particularly the work of George Combe, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism challenges the orthodoxy that Charles Darwin's 1859 work The Origin of Species was the most influential work of Victorian science. Instead it is argued that Combe's phrenological work, The Constitution of Man in Relation to External Objects, published thirty one years previously, not only out...

This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin. Vivid with detail, the letters are fully annotated and accompanied by an introduction with a newly reconstructed itinerary.

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge have long remained undiscovered. Consequently hi...

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge have long remained undiscovered. Consequently hi...

¿The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough, but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.¿T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Sout...

¿The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough, but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.¿T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Sout...

Combining science, travel, culture, and history, this elegant, richly illustrated volume offers not just hundreds of full-color photographs but also a trove of removable facsimile documents that bring Charles Darwin and his groundbreaking theories to life.

Encuadernación: Cartoné con cubierta plastificada en estuche de cartón plastificado Colección: Personajes de la historiaCharles Darwin, uno de los científicos más influyentes de la historia de la humanidad, revolucionó la concepción que hasta entonces se tenía del mundo, del origen de las especies y del lugar que el hombre ocupa en la larga cadena de la vida. Cuando se cumple el bicentenario de su nacimiento y el siglo y medio de la aparición ...