Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man
Author : Sir William Lawrence
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Page : 652 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1819
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
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Author : Sir William Lawrence
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Page : 652 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1819
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
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Author : William Lawrence
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780267775637
Excerpt from Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, Vol. 2: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons This disquisition will perhaps be deemed superfluous by those who regard the Hebrew Scriptures as writings composed with the assistance of divine inspiration, and therefore commanding our implicit assent; who receive, as a narrative of actual events, authenticated by the highest sanction, the account contained in Genesis of the' formation of the world, the creation of man and animals, and their dispersion over the face of the globe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Natural history
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Author : Frances Wright
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
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Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521255882
This is the second volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The letters in this volume were written during the seven years following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage. It was a period of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional man with official responsibilities in several scientific organisations. During these years he published two books and fifteen papers and also organised and superintended the publication of the Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, for which he described the locations of the fossils and the habitats and behaviour of the living species he had collected. Busy as he was with scientific activities, Darwin found time to re-establish family ties and friendships, and to make new friends among the naturalists with whom his work brought him into close contact. In November 1838, two years after his return Darwin became engaged to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, whom he subsequently married.
Author : Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library
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Page : 960 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Benjamin Vincent
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library
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Page : 978 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813535319
Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.
Author : Nicolaas Rupke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1351732145
The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate humankind as part of natural history. Moreover, Blumenbach was, and continues to be, a central figure in debates about race and racism. How exactly did Blumenbach define race and races? What were his scientific criteria? And which cultural values did he bring to bear on his scheme? Little historical work has been done on Blumenbach’s fundamental, influential race work. From his own time till today, several different pronouncements have been made by either followers or opponents, some accusing Blumenbach of being the fountainhead of scientific racism. By contrast, across early nineteenth-century Europe, not least in France, Blumenbach was lionized as an anti-racist whose work supported the unity of humankind and the abolition of slavery. This collection of essays considers how, with Blumenbach and those around him, the study of natural history and, by extension, that of science came to dominate the Western discourse of race.