The Complete Work of Charles Darwin
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: The Complete Work of Charles Darwin
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:33:52 -0400
FROM: Yahoo!'s Picks Weekly Wire
October 22, 2006
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin
http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Never before have Charles Darwin's writings been pulled together like
this. Never before have you been able to search the entire body of his
work, contrast facsimiles and text, and examine every aspect of each
publication down to its spine and end pages. It's almost an
embarrassment of riches--and the University of Cambridge rightly boasts
that "it's as close to holding the book in your hand as the Internet can
be." For most of us, though, the joy in this archive will come from the
unexpected details that surface about the famous Mr. Darwin. For
instance, "a life in pictures" reveals images of the gentleman
naturalist as a young boy and the path he paced while thinking. The
obituaries from the time of his death, poetic snatches from his
excursion notebooks, and the many zoological illustrations enrich our
view not just of "On the Origin of Species," but of the origins of its
author, as well.
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