Research Catalog

Title

Pioneers of evolution [electronic resource] : from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement / by Edward Clodd.

Author

Clodd, Edward, 1840-1930.

Publication

London ; New York : Cassell, 1907.

Details

Description

1 online resource (x, [2], 252 p., [1] leaf of plates) : ports.

Series Statement

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Subject

• Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
• Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
• Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
• Evolution > History

Note

• Includes index.
• Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Contents

pt. I. Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Lucretius, B.C. 600-A.D. 50 -- pt. II. The arrest of enquiry, A.D. 50-A.D. 1600: 1. From the early Christian Period to the time of Augustine, A.D. 50-A.D. 400. 2. From Augustine to Bacon, A.D. 400-A.D. 1600 -- pt. III. The renascence of science, about A.D. 1600 onwards -- pt. IV. Modern evolution. 1. Darwin and Wallace. 2. Herbert Spencer. 3. Thomas Henry Huxley.

OCLC

• 4712405
• NCCO2006741

Author

Clodd, Edward, 1840-1930.

Title

Pioneers of evolution [electronic resource] : from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement / by Edward Clodd.

Imprint

London ; New York : Cassell, 1907.

Edition

Rev. ed.

Series

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

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