{"product_id":"evolution-before-darwin-9781474445788","title":"Evolution Before Darwin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first major study of what was probably the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It sheds new light on the genesis and development of one of the most important scientific theories in the history of western thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: Edinburgh's university and medical schools in the early nineteenth century  The legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment  The University of Edinburgh at the beginning of the nineteenth century  The University of Edinburgh's medical school  Edinburgh's extra-mural anatomy schools  Chapter 3: Natural History in Edinburgh, 1779-1832  Natural history in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth century  Robert Jameson and the chair of natural history  Comparative anatomy at the extra-mural medical schools  Natural history, scientific and medical societies  Natural history and science journals  Chapter 4: Geology and evolution  The Wernerian model of earth history  Wernerians and Huttonians in Edinburgh  The story of life as a tale of progressive development  Wernerian geology and transformism  Werner, Lamarck and Geoffroy in Edinburgh  Chapter 5: Edinburgh and Paris  Contemporary transformism in France: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire  Lamarck in Scotland  The impact of Geoffroy's theories in Edinburgh  Chapter 6: The legacy of the 'Edinburgh Lamarckians'  The eclipse of transformism in Edinburgh  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation  Transmutation without progress: Robert Knox and Hewett Cottrell Watson  The legacy of Darwin's Edinburgh years  Chapter 7: Conclusion  Bibliography; Unpublished primary sources; Published primary sources; Secondary sources","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408861372759,"sku":"9781474445788","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474445788.jpg?v=1730504477","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/evolution-before-darwin-9781474445788","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}