The Young Charles Darwin

The Young Charles Darwin PDF Author: Keith Stewart Thomson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300136080
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Book Description
This book is the first to inquire into the range of influences and ideas, the mentors and rivals, and the formal and informal education that shaped Charles Darwin and prepared him for his remarkable career of scientific achievement. Keith Thomson concentrates on Darwin's early life as a schoolboy, a medical student at Edinburgh, a theology student at Cambridge, and a naturalist aboard the Beagle on its famous five-year voyage