The Major Prose of Thomas Henry HuxleyUniversity of Georgia Press, 1997 - 366 síður Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was one of the intellectual giants of Victorian England. Initially a surgeon by training, he became the principal exponent of Darwinism and popularizer of "scientific naturalism." His public advocacy of evolution, the voice he gave to science as a dignified and vital profession, the powerful offices he held in its societies, and the many volumes he published of and about science made Huxley among the most influential of all nineteenth-century figures in the history of science. Huxley was a prolific essayist, and his writings put him at the center of intellectual debate in England during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Alan P. Barr's edition of The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley fills a very real and pressing chasm in history of science books, bringing together almost all of Huxley's major nontechnical prose, including Man's Place in Nature and both "Evolution in Ethics" and its "Prolegomena." |
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A Lobster or the Study of Zoology 1861 | 1 |
Mans Place in Nature 1863 | 20 |
On a Piece of Chalk 1868 | 154 |
On the Physical Basis of Life 1868 | 174 |
The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species 1880 | 195 |
A Liberal Education and Where to Find It 1868 | 205 |
The Method of Zadig 1880 | 239 |
Agnosticism 1889 | 282 |
Evolution and Ethics 284 Prolegomena 1894 | 283 |
Selected Letters | 345 |
Selected Bibliography | 365 |
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| Titill | The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley University of Georgia Humanities Center series on science and the humanities |
| Höfundur | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Editor | Alan P. Barr |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Útgefandi | University of Georgia Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0820318647, 9780820318646 |
| Length | 366 síður |
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