Gaertner, Albin (1854–95)
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- … Lived in Vienna. https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Albin-Gaertner/6000000022601107297 ( …
Harrison, M. J. (1846–1926)
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- … Heath-Caldwell, Biographies of interesting people , www.jjhc.info/harrisonmathew1926.htm ( …
Hill, E. S. (1819–80)
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- … Campaigned for the rights of indigenous peoples. Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 1880, …
Ferretti, Gisberto (1845–86)
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- … d’Igiene 8 (1886): 339 https://www.geni.com/people/Gisberto-Ferretti/6000000037763856284 ( …
Evans, Margaret (1831/2–1909)
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- … the Darwins: the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of …
Oliver, James (1801–80)
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- … 9 October 2007, http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/book.pdf (accessed 10 October 2007), …
Beveridge, Peter (1829–85)
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- … various ethnological works on Aboriginal peoples. Brother of Andrew Beveridge. Aust. dict. …
Hagenbeck, Carl (1844–1913)
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- … expeditions to capture animals. Put on ‘people’s shows’ (circuses) from 1874. Founded a …
Barstow, J. S. (1823–81)
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- … accessed 14 July 2015) www.geni.com/people/John-Barstow/ (accessed 14 July 2015) 30 …
Barstow, E. F. (1826–87)
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- … accessed 18 February 2021) www.geni.com/people/Eleonor-Condit/ (accessed 18 February 2021) …
Barstow, C. A. (1830–1910)
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- … accessed 18 February 2021) www.geni.com/people/Catherine-Andrew-Barstow/ 30 …
Galbraith, J. F. (1854–1934)
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- … Historical Society, www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/galbraith_jf.shtml (accessed 1 May 2012) …
Hartmann, Robert (1831/2–93)
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- … Wrote major ethnological studies of African peoples. Treiber 1993 , pp. 183–5 Bibliography …
Adanson, Michel (1727–1806)
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- … Studied the flora, fauna, geography, and peoples of Senegal, 1748–54; published L’histoire …
Morgan, L. H. (1818–81)
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- … the Iroquois and other Native American peoples. Published League of the Ho-de’no-sau-nee, …
Walter, Charles (1831–1907)
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- … his work recorded local Aboriginal people. Dictionary of Australian artists . Bibliography …
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Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … see, the French scene deserves close attention. I think that people have been working – and doing …
- … , but let’s say, ?the Institution of Science?) and people have also assumed that the science which …
- … each of these dictionaries there is a huge coverage of what people felt important for the …
- … distorting our appreciation at a very basic level: what were people talking about? Now, that …
- … public press. Not only that, but he also produced, or had people writing for him, articles showing …
- … more the French government moves to the right wing, the more people try to start saying that …
- … officer of the Napoleonic army becomes a kind of person who people have to trust to put the country …
- … to curb atheism, but even more worried [of] subversion and people not being friendly to the …
- … professional structure, of the Anglican clergymen. I found people endorsing moderate forms of …
- … of Noah’s ark. It is surprising the extent to which these people knew about Continental science. …
- … I still believe up to the mid-1830s not many English people knew German. (The evidence of that is …
- … academic climbing to a completely different mindset. But people always try to say how original they …
- … more important. Let me give you one instance. For people like John Fleming , the Scottish …
- … atheism implicit in Lamarck. By 1830 in England, a lot of people are really worried that Lamarckian …
- … By 1834, the issue was almost academic within a lot of people, and William Whewell, in 1837, wrongly …
- … at is that by the time in which Darwin sets to read these people – Lamarck, Bory de Saint-Vincent, …
- … more [part of a] burning debate, [a] hot debate, on which people feel things are at stake. So I …
- … that. I simply say that he’s tried to think, who are the people who said something [about evolution …
- … who said something. And naturally so, because by 1860 these people were curiosities, whereas if you …
- … a seat at the Academy of Sciences in botany, not in zoology. People felt challenged. The earliest …
- … I think that is totally not true. But nevertheless, people who say that Lamarck cut no ice in France …
- … Lamarck has not said what Darwin said, even though some people say, well, within Darwin there …
- … everyone believed that throughout Europe; very few people doubted that. The question is to what an …
- … thesis as broad as that – ?French science declined? - people are now finding a lot of counter …
- … language. That is, that was not mainstream. Certainly, people who used Darwin in that way in France, …
Interview with Randal Keynes
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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…
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- … had an idea which he knew was going to be shocking to many people, and it's pretty clear that …
- … in which his ideas were going to have great value to other people. He thought he might have ideas …
- … . We have things we can work out from letters that other people wrote to him, especially Emma. We …
- … of the Origin of Species , only then, really, did people start asking him for his views. And …
- … faith: why - the points I've made - easy or difficult; why people made it - the challenge of …
- … I find it difficult to think of it as a real idea - that people really believed it - but I think we …
- … very clear in his own writing and in his letters to other people: always questioning, always …
- … say. The first thing is that he was quite clear with other people in the village, other gentry in …
- … a social institution to be supported because it guided other people - he was a man of his time: he …
- … a purely scientific observation, is presented by many people as a piece of autobiography. In …
Interview with Tim Lewens
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Dr Tim Lewens is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Organisms and artifacts (2004), which examines the language and arguments for design in biology and philosophy, and of…
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- … I think it’s aninteresting question about why it is that people call themselves Darwinians now. One …
- … issues about God, issues that go to the very heart of what people have tended to think of as deep …
- … of areas then it’s hardly surprising, I think, that some people are going to want to call themselves …
- … that kind of all-encompassing aspect that, as I say, some people have viewed as certainly inherent …
- … the idea of natural selection. One of the things that many people claim for the idea of natural …
- … simple idea with extremely general application. And many people think that natural selection is …
- … characterise natural selection in such a general way, then people begin to apply it to all kinds of …
- … to have such an enormous significance and why, for some people, it is a kind of world view. It’s …
Language: Interview with Gregory Radick
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Darwin made a famous comment about parallels between changes in language and species change. Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, talks about the importance of the development of language to Darwin, what…
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- … that tended to survive, and to reproduce, and to make more people who were capable of doing the same …
- … there’s a little scholarly debate, and on the one side are people who say that Darwin couldn’t …
- … But that’s not what we find, say the critics. We can find people in the most debased circumstances, …
- … are as lowly as the rest of these cultures, so lowly people speak lowly languages. Now this is a …
- … missionary effort going in that part of the world with those people. So part of the surprise he was …
- … groups, it was because, for their own reasons, a number of people came to think that the idea of a …
- … and still being read with profit by scientifically engaged people now. Linguists can still often be …
- … Nearer to Darwin’s own day, I don’t think that most people who were already Darwinians just …
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … in terms of the vacuum that had been created – for some people – by the challenge to Christianity …
- … still be interpreted in ways that make sense to religious people and which are not seen to …
- … how Darwin uses the conversion motif when discussing people who have adopted his theory. And Darwin …
- … say, by Thomas Huxley or Ernst Haeckel ? are these people more typical of the manner in which …
- … that religion can give, or even that sense in which people look to the natural world and feel able …
- … as I say, it’s a kind of approximation, but for a lot of people, the unification comes from the fact …
- … that I mentioned earlier. I mean, I have sometimes heard people say Christianity is not a religion. …
- … you could take a figure like Isaac Newton, for whom many people, I think? he would be a kind of …
- … not things: they’re practises , they’re what people do. Dr White: Well, that’s a …
