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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, emblematically but not exclusively represented by the work of Charles Darwin, natural science reconfigured the ways in which practitioners would treat the sciences of ""deep time"" – especially geology and the new theory of natural selection. This volume uses primary sources and editorial commentary to examine the topics of geology and evolution in this period. This title will be of great interest to students of the history of philosophy and the history of science.

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Author:   Charles H. Pence
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
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9781032204918

ISBN 10:   1032204915
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   25 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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Volume 2: Deep Time: Geology and Evolution General Introduction Volume 2 Introduction Part 1: The Continental Traditions 1. Georges Cuvier, “View of the Relations Which Exist Amongst the Variations of the Several Organs”, from Lectures on Comparative Anatomy (1802 [1800]), pp. 46–61 2. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy¸ tr. Hugh Elliott (1809, tr. 1914), pp. 19–21, 35–39, 56–61, 112–114, 126–127 3. Richard Owen, “Report on the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. 16 (1846), pp. 169–170, 173–176, 248–251, 339–340 Part 2: Uniformity and Catastrophe in Geology 4. John Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), pp. 510–528 5. William Buckland, “Volcanic Rocks, Basalt and Trap” and “Primary Stratified Rocks”, from Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836), pp. 44–56 6. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Vol. 1 (1830), pp. 75–91 7. Adam Sedgwick, “Address to the Geological Society, Delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, by the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. &c. On Retiring from the President’s Chair”, The Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 9, pp. 298–308, 312–317 Part 3: The History of Life 8. William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836), pp. 538–552 9. Robert Chambers, “Hypothesis of the Development of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdom”, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 4th ed., (1845), pp. 195–216 10. Adam Sedgwick, “[Review of] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”, The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 82 (1845), pp. 1–10 11. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (excerpts), (1859), pp. 7–14, 34–43, 80–96, 111–130, 279–302, 329–336 12. Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinism (1889), pp. 445–446, 461–478 Part 4: After Darwin: Responding to the Origin 13. Fleeming Jenkin, “[Review of] The Origin of Species”, North British Review, Vol. 46 (June 1867), pp. 277–286, 317–318 14. Adam Sedgwick, “Objections to Mr. Darwin’s Theory of the Origin of Species”, The Spectator, Vol. 33 (1860), pp. 285–286 15. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, “Sex and Evolution”, The Sexes Throughout Nature (1875), pp. 11–23 16. St. George Jackson Mivart, On the Genesis of Species, 2nd ed. (1871), pp. 290–302 Bibliography Index

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Dr. Charles H. Pence is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Science and Society (CEFISES) at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

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