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Book SynopsisCurtis Johnson examines Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch," creating profiles of the great thinkers writing before and during Darwin's lifetime.
Trade ReviewI do not hesitate to label Johnson's 472-page monograph a new milestone in the study of Darwin's "Historical Sketch". It deserves intense scholarly attention from "Darwin industry" insiders and from nonspecialists in various fields who seek a fuller and more intimate acquaintance with Darwin's intellectual territory. * Xiaoxing Jin, Isis *
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments The Preface to Darwin's Origin of Species: The Curious History of the "Historical Sketch" Chapter I: Darwin's "Priority": Baden Powell and A.R. Wallace Chapter II: Darwin's Earliest Sources. Authors to be "passed over": Buffon, Maillet, Aristotle Chapter III: Early Transmutationists: J.B. Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Goethe, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Chapter IV: W.C. Wells and William Herbert Chapter V: Robert Grant and Patrick Matthew Chapter VI: Leopold von Buch, C.S Rafinesque, and Samuel Haldeman Chapter VII: Robert Chambers, J.B.J. d'Omalius d'Halloy, and Henry Freke Chapter VIII: Richard Owen, Part I: Owen Before the Origin and his 1860 Review Chapter IX. Richard Owen, Part II: Owen After the Origin Chapter X: Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Chapter XI: Herbert Spencer and Charles Victor Naudin Chapter XII: Heinrich Bronn, Franz Unger, J.W.E. d'Alton, and Lorenz Oken Chapter XIII: D.A. Gordon, J.B.G.N. Bory de Saint Vincent, K.F. Burdach, J.L.M. Poiret, E.M. Fries Chapter XIV: Alexander Keyserling, Hermann Schaafhausen, and Henri Lecoq Chapter XV: Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Epilogue: T.H. Huxley and J.D. Hooker Bibliography
