基本信息

· 书名:Richard Owen: Biology Without Darwin

· 版本:Revised

· 作者:Rupke

· ISBN13:9780226731773

· 装帧:平装

· 语种:英文

· 出版日期:2009-08-01

· 出版社:University of Chicago Press

· 页数:368

· 重量:0.5 kg

· 尺寸:22.6 x 15 x 2 cm

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In the mid 1850s no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain s answer to France s Georges Cuvier and Germany s Alexander von Humboldt Owen was as the Times declared in 1856 the most distinguished man of science in the country But a century and a half later Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all Charles Darwin Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique o

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Rupke Nicolaas A Nicolaas A Rupke is Lower Saxony Research Professor of the History of Science at Gottingen University With a doctorate from Princeton he held research positions at Oxford and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University His monographs Alexander von Humboldt A Metabiography (2008) and Richard Owen Biology without Darwin (2009) were recently reissued Rupke is a fellow of Germany s National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Gottingen Academy of Sciences