This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science reconfigured the ways in which practitioners would treat the sciences of "deep time" – especially geology and the new theory of natural selection. This volume uses primary sources and editorial commentary to examine the topics of geology and evolution in this period. This title will be of great interest to students of the history of philosophy and the history of science.
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. This volume uses primary sources and editorial commentary to examine the topics of geology and evolution in this period.
Volume 2: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution
General Introduction
Volume 2 Introduction
Part 1: The Continental Traditions
1. Georges Cuvier, View of the Relations Which Exist Amongst the Variations
of the Several Organs, from Lectures on Comparative Anatomy (1802 [ 1800]),
pp. 4661
2. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy¸ tr. Hugh Elliott (1809, tr.
1914), pp. 1921, 3539, 5661, 112114, 126127
3. Richard Owen, Report on the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate
Skeleton, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science,
Vol. 16 (1846), pp. 169170, 173176, 248251, 339340
Part 2: Uniformity and Catastrophe in Geology
4. John Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802),
pp. 510528
5. William Buckland, Volcanic Rocks, Basalt and Trap and Primary
Stratified Rocks, from Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to
Natural Theology (1836), pp. 4456
6. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Vol. 1 (1830), pp. 7591
7. Adam Sedgwick, Address to the Geological Society, Delivered on the
Evening of the 18th of February 1831, by the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A.
F.R.S. &c. On Retiring from the Presidents Chair, The Philosophical
Magazine, Vol. 9, pp. 298308, 312317
Part 3: The History of Life
8. William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to
Natural Theology (1836), pp. 538552
9. Robert Chambers, Hypothesis of the Development of the Vegetable and
Animal Kingdom, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 4th ed., (1845),
pp. 195216
10. Adam Sedgwick, [ Review of] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,
The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 82 (1845), pp. 110
11. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (excerpts), (1859), pp. 714,
3443, 8096, 111130, 279302, 329336
12. Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinism (1889), pp. 445446, 461478
Part 4: After Darwin: Responding to the Origin
13. Fleeming Jenkin, [ Review of] The Origin of Species, North British
Review, Vol. 46 (June 1867), pp. 277286, 317318
14. Adam Sedgwick, Objections to Mr. Darwins Theory of the Origin of
Species, The Spectator, Vol. 33 (1860), pp. 285286
15. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Sex and Evolution, The Sexes Throughout
Nature (1875), pp. 1123
16. St. George Jackson Mivart, On the Genesis of Species, 2nd ed. (1871), pp.
290302
Bibliography
Index
Dr. Charles H. Pence is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Science and Society (CEFISES) at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
