[NatureNS] Darwin's - Origin of Species

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:42:28 -0400
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Quoting Gerald <naturens@zdoit.airpost.net>:

> About Voyage of the Beagle I agree. When I read it I was trying to
> understand his thought process, which I could not from the book..

* of course the 'Voyage of the Beagle' was written after Darwin had  
begun to think about evolution, so the interesting thing about his  
'thought processes' is the very obvious (to a modern reader) negative  
shape of the lack of discussion of evolution.

fred.
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> On 9/3/14 11:57, Brian Bartlett wrote:
>> The Voyage of the Beagle is one of my favourite 19th-century books by
>> naturalists. Chock-full of precisely rendered observations, intense
>> descriptions, a wealth of exploratory curiosity, fresh reflections,
>> fascinating narratives, colourful scenes, cultural commentary,
>> provocative questions, philosophical asides.... (But not satisfying if
>> you're only looking for a book of hard science.)
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Gerald
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:18 AM
>> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
>> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Darwin's - Origin of Species
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It has been many years since I read it. My opinion was similar. I also
>> read Voyage of the Beagle. This disappointed me since he left out too
>> much of his analysis of his observations.
>>
>> --
>> Gerald
>>
>> On 9/2/14 20:35, James Hirtle wrote:
>>> Hi all:
>>>
>>> I just finished reading Charles Darwin's - The Origin of Species.  For
>>> the sake of argument has anyone else read this and what was your opinion
>>> of it?  I found it rather drab and a hard read.  There were really only
>>> two things of real interest to me, which was the lifespan of an elephant
>>> and the time it takes a female to produce it's first young.  Also,
>>> that ants will tickle the bottom of an aphid to make it excrete and then
>>> eat this as food.
>>>
>>> It was my impression after reading the book that a lot of Darwin's
>>> thoughts and discoveries were not his own, but based on the research of
>>> others and possibly taken as his own.  In comparison to other writings
>>> by him and of others about his research, which by the way I really
>>> enjoyed at the time.  I was really disheartened after reading the actual
>>> Origin of Species also written by him.  I'll look forward to others
>>> thoughts on this book.
>>>
>>> James R. Hirtle
>>> Bridgewater
>>
>>
>



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