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Originally published anonymously in 1844, Vestiges proved to be as controversial as its author expected. Integrating research in the burgeoning sciences of anthropology, geology, astronomy, biology, economics, and chemistry, it was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences to a history of creation. The author, whose identity was not revealed until 1884, was Robert Chambers, a leading Scottish writer and publisher. Vestiges reached a huge popular audience and was widely read by the social and intellectual elite. It sparked debate about natural law, setting the stage for the controversy over Darwin's Origin. In response to the surrounding debate and criticism, Chambers published Explanations: A Sequel, in which he offered a reasoned defense of his ideas about natural law, castigating what he saw as the narrowness of specialist science.
With a new introduction by James Secord, a bibliography of reviews, and a new index, this volume adds to Vestiges and Explanations Chambers's earliest works on cosmology, an essay on Darwin, and an autobiographical essay, raising important issues about the changing meanings of popular science and religion and the rise of secular ideologies in Western culture.
With a new introduction by James Secord, a bibliography of reviews, and a new index, this volume adds to Vestiges and Explanations Chambers's earliest works on cosmology, an essay on Darwin, and an autobiographical essay, raising important issues about the changing meanings of popular science and religion and the rise of secular ideologies in Western culture.
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IT is familiar knowledge that the earth which we inhabit is a globe of somewhat less than 8000 miles in diameter, being one of a series of eleven which revolve at different distances around the sun, and some of which have satellites in like manner revolving around them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
carbonigenous era, embryotic progress, rasorial type, elder continent, invertebrated animals, cosmical arrangements, astral system, oolitic formation, carboniferous formation, organic creation, new red sandstone, nebulous matter, nebulous stars, nebular hypothesis, autobiographical preface, coal strata, special exertion, primary rocks, secondary rocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Edinburgh Review, British Association, Professor Owen, Sir John Herschel, North British Review, Upper Silurians, Bridgewater Treatise, John Churchill, Professor Edward Forbes, Professor Phillips, Ansted's Geology, Arbor Diana, Lord Rosse, Milky Way, Professor Sedgwick, Robert Chambers, Sir William Herschel, South America New!
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IT is familiar knowledge that the earth which we inhabit is a globe of somewhat less than 8000 miles in diameter, being one of a series of eleven which revolve at different distances around the sun, and some of which have satellites in like manner revolving around them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
carbonigenous era, embryotic progress, rasorial type, elder continent, invertebrated animals, cosmical arrangements, astral system, oolitic formation, carboniferous formation, organic creation, new red sandstone, nebulous matter, nebulous stars, nebular hypothesis, autobiographical preface, coal strata, special exertion, primary rocks, secondary rocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Edinburgh Review, British Association, Professor Owen, Sir John Herschel, North British Review, Upper Silurians, Bridgewater Treatise, John Churchill, Professor Edward Forbes, Professor Phillips, Ansted's Geology, Arbor Diana, Lord Rosse, Milky Way, Professor Sedgwick, Robert Chambers, Sir William Herschel, South America New!
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Robert Chambers (1802-1871) Scottish author, publisher and geologist. With his brother William, he founded W&R Chambers publishing company. Wrote books on Scottish history, literature, edited journals and wrote encyclopedias. His most [in]famous ...
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