Schell, Patience (Author)
Palgrave Macmillan
Physical Details: xii + 297 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English
B efore genetics and the mapping of DNA, before ecology and global warming, adventurous and foolhardy souls were compelled into the wild because of their insatiable curiosity about the natural world. The work of these naturalists was intensely sociable: they explored together, dashed off irate letters to colleagues, haggled over specimens, commiserated over family tragedies, and extracted favors from one another. And no one better exemplified this than the European scientists who were drawn to Chile in the nineteenth century. This beautifully written history begins with a familiar pairing - Charles Darwin and Captain Robert Fitz-Roy aboard the Beagle - and goes on to trace the fortunes of colorful figures such as the happy-go-lucky Prussian adventurer Bernardo Philippi, who was murdered by indigenous people in the Strait of Magellan, and Claudio Gay, an amateur French botanist who became the father of the natural sciences in Chile. These Europeans taught Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world.
...MoreReview Ashley Kerr (2015) Review of "The Sociable Sciences. Darwin and his Conemporaries in Chile". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 949-950).
Review Cowie, Helen (2014) Review of "The Sociable Sciences. Darwin and his Conemporaries in Chile". Archives of Natural History (p. 177).
Review Wakild, Emily (2014) Review of "The Sociable Sciences. Darwin and his Conemporaries in Chile". Hispanic American Historical Review (p. 327).
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