Gebundenes Buch

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Volume 19, 1871

Herausgeber: Burkhardt, Frederick; The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence; Secord, James

Beschreibung

Get inside Charles Darwin's mind as he published Descent of Man, his first public statement on human evolution.

Autor

Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007), the founder of the Darwin Correspondence Project, was president of Bennington College, Vermont, 1947-1957, and president of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1957-74. Before founding the Darwin Correspondence Project in 1974, he was already at work on an edition of the papers of the philosopher William James. He received the Modern Language Association of America's first Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1991, the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History in 1997, the Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and a special citation for outstanding service to the history of science from the History of Science Society in 2005.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1116
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 64mm
• Gewicht: 1814g
• ISBN-13: 9781107016484
• ISBN-10: 1107016487
• Artikelnr.: 35117610