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What is an experiment?
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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
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- … affinity. The two-fold division of Darwin’s science between observation and theory also seems …
- … on the wane, and it was gradually eclipsed in Darwin’s own lifetime by the more specialized, …
- … controlled space with specialized equipment. In Darwin’s day this was by no means the case. The …
- … (small plots of land). Experimentation in Darwin’s day was not the monopoly of elite, highly …
- … botanists, and with experimental physiologists such as John Burdon Sanderson and Michael Foster. …
- … detailed observation and experimental work became Darwin’s driving passion, his greatest balm at …
- … … & am never happy except when at work’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 25 December [1880] ). …
