Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers. Published anonymously in...
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the anonymous author of the book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Such ideas were associated with 18th century ideas of Deism and human progress...
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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) (category Fellows of the Geological Society of London)
phrenologist in the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. He was also the anonymous author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which was so controversial...
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James A. Secord, in his study of the impact of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, argues that in some ways Vestiges had as much or more impact...
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Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Chicago: University of Chicago...
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The history of creationism relates to the history of thought based on the premise that the natural universe had a beginning, and came into being supernaturally...
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1844 Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Charles Darwin (1809–1882) used the metaphor of a "tree of life" to conceptualise his theory of evolution...
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economic recovery, and when Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was anonymously published in 1844 its ideas of transmutation of species attracted wide...
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Look up vestiges in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vestiges may refer to: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), by Robert Chambers Vestigiality...
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Missing link (human evolution) (category Gaps in the fossil record)
theory of evolution. The earliest publication that explicitly uses the term “missing link” was in 1844 in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert...
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the publication of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, there was interest in ideas of Creation by divine law. In particular, the liberal theologian...
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In the same year the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation brought wide public interest in evolutionary ideas, but also showed the need...
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Charles Babbage (redirect from Passages from the life of a philosopher)
confide in the testimony of our senses." The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise was quoted extensively in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. The parallel...
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Theistic evolution (redirect from Evolutionary creation)
sequence of creations, but his concepts were the first to be adapted into a scheme of theistic evolutionism, when in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation...
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Evolutionary taxonomy (section The Tree of Life)
idea was popularised in the English-speaking world by the speculative but widely read Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, published anonymously...
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Taxonomy (biology) (redirect from History of taxonomy)
zoologique of 1809. The idea was popularized in the Anglophone world by the speculative but widely read Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, published...
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Chambers's controversial Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation popularized the idea of gradual transmutation of species. The scientific establishment...
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of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2000. ISBN 0-226-74410-8 Serafini, Anthony The Epic History of Biology...
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conservation of the Galápagos terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The Research Station, established in 1959 and dedicated in 1964, has a natural history interpretation...
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Emma Darwin (section Later life and the Darwin grounds)
with profits going to the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University. The 2009 film Creation focuses in part on the relationship between Charles...
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natural selection, included international debate, though the heat of controversy was less than that over earlier works such as Vestiges of Creation....
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Tree by Thomas Hardy, originally published anonymously. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802), as only revealed...
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Man's Place in Nature (section Precursors of the idea)
Vestiges of the natural history of creation. p217–218 Darwin, C.; Wallace, A. R. (1858). "On the Tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation...
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Andrew Jackson Davis (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
he had read Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and there was evidence he had read books on sociology. The spiritualist writings of Davis have...
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Robert Chambers' anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which paves the way for acceptance of Darwin's The Origin of Species, is published...
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Polydactyly (category Congenital disorders of musculoskeletal system)
removed after birth. Robert Chambers, purported author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, and his brother William had six digits on each limb...
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In Memoriam A.H.H. (section The poem)
book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), a speculative natural history about the negative theological implications of Nature functioning...
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Charles Darwin (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
had greeted the popular and less scientific Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Though Darwin's illness kept him away from the public debates...
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Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-74410-0. Archived from the original on...
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Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. University of Chicago Press...
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