Book ID: CBB000071857

Thomas Henry Huxley's place in science and letters: Centenary essays (1997)

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Barr, Alan P. (Editor)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xiii + 353 pp.; illus.; notes

Description Contents: Barr, Alan P.: “Common sense clarified”: Thomas Henry Huxley's faith in truth. Reed, John R.: Thomas Henry Huxley and the question of morality. Knight, David: Thomas Henry Huxley and philosophy of science. Schwartz, Joel S.: “A good impudent faith in my own star”: Thomas Henry Huxley's odyssey in the South Seas. Lyons, Sherrie L.: Convincing men they are monkeys. Bowler, Peter J.: Thomas Henry Huxley and the reconstruction of life's ancestry. Ruse, Michael: Thomas Henry Huxley and the status of evolution as science. Di Gregorio, Mario A.: Thomas Henry Huxley and German science. Reid, Robert G.B.: Thomas Henry Huxley and 19th-century biology. White, Paul: Genius in public and private. Brantlinger, Patrick: Thomas Henry Huxley and the imperial archive. Bodmer, George R.: The technical illustration of Thomas Henry Huxley. Sommerville, Bruce, Shortland, Michael: Thomas Henry Huxley, H.G. Wells, and the method of Zadig. Lightman, Bernard: “Fighting even with death”: Balfour, scientific naturalism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's final battle.


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Belling, Catherine
Camerini, Jane Rouder
Davis, Michael
Dawson, Gowan
DeArce, Miguel
Elwick, James M.
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Huxley, Thomas Henry
Darwin, Charles Robert
Owen, Richard
Carpenter, William Benjamin
Spencer, Herbert
Wallace, Alfred Russel
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