10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSMUTATIONIST»
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transmutationist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On ...
Darwin was determined to make a thoroughly researched and documented case
for his theory, knowing full well the scientific world's extreme skepticism to
transmutationist ideas. The very year his Essay was penned also saw the
pillorying of ...
If Darwin took his time, he might wait for a calmer sea on which to sail his own
transmutationist theory; he might amass enough sober evidence and marshal it in
such a wayas to preempt any doubt of the purity of his metal; and he might find a
...
3
Science and Religion: Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, ...
Few naturalists were known or suspected to hold transmutationist views. The
great majority of participants in the debate acknowledged the inadequacy of
available transmutationist mechanisms, though among anthropologists and
medical ...
Whatever might be the result of anatomical investigation, it would not affect his
argument ; for his own part, indeed, he, while as a transmutationist not attaching
to the distinction the same importance as many a transmutationist, believed the ...
Anthropological Society of London, 1864
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species
Both these laws are in the closest connection with each other, although we
cannot understand the productive power* Here, again, the Transmutationist
brings up his system to a blank wall in the labyrinth of error. We have here ' an ...
Robert Mackenzie Beverley, 1867
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The American Presbyterian Review
Dr. Hooker, a transmutationist, confesses that " the majority of species are so far
constant within the range of our experience and their forms and characters so
faithfully handed down, through thousands of generations, that they admit of
being ...
Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood, 1864
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The American Presbyterian and Theological Review
Dr. Hooker, a transmutationist, confesses that " the majority of species are so far
constant within the range of our experience and their forms and characters so
faithfully handed down, through thousands of generations, that they admit of
being ...
Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood, 1864
For the transmutationist, of course, the continuity between organisms was
corporeal rather than idealist, and it is precisely the blurring of the distinction
between physical and metaphysical that made it possible for readers to reconcile
new ...
9
Darwin in Galápagos: Footsteps to a New World
Darwin historian Sandra Herbert puts it this way: “[A]t first Darwin's experience in
the Galápagos Islands was overemphasized as the turning point in his arrival at a
transmutationist position. Now that most readers have learned that Darwin did ...
K. Thalia Grant, Gregory B. Estes, 2009
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles ...
Grant wasa transmutationist, as Darwinwellknew,but a transmutationist who
embraced the wrong theory and belonged to the wrong political camp. Darwin
wanted to modernize natural history, makingit law based andmaterialistic in
itsview of ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSMUTATIONIST»
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transmutationist is used in the context of the following news items.
A New Book Poses the Question: At the Birth of Modern Science …
For example, when Robert Chambers anonymously published his transmutationist Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation in 1844, Whewell refused to review ... «Discovery Institute, Apr 12»
Darwin Day Repost – Ex Omnia Conchis: Darwin And His Beloved …
It confirmed his transmutationist views, gave him credibility in the face of Vestiges and the much contested views of Lamarck, and resulted in an award from his ... «Deep-Sea News, Feb 11»
