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On this day in 1823, Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, was born in Usk, Wales. He died in 1913....Posted on January 8, 2007 04:05 AM • 3 Comments
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On this day ...
On this day in 1829, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Le Chavalier de Lamarck died penniless and blind in Paris. Lamarck is, of course, popularly remembered as the father of Lamarckism. But let us remember a few things -...Posted on December 28, 2006 02:49 AM • 3 Comments
On this day ...
Today in 1831, Charles Darwin left Plymouth on board the HMS Beagle for a voyage that would be epoch-making in the history of science. He would return to England on the 2nd of October 1836. In 1837 he would...Posted on December 27, 2006 04:15 AM • 1 Comments
On this day ...
Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642 (Julian calender). As Alexander Pope famously said. "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;, God said 'Let Newton be' and all was light."...Posted on December 25, 2006 04:00 PM • 3 Comments
A classic work updated
I spent last night reading the updated version of Ron Numbers' classic work The Creationists. While the majority of the text has not changed from the 1992 edition, Numbers has added two new chapters - one on Intelligent Design...Posted on December 19, 2006 10:19 PM • 1 Comments
Darwin, Marx and Bad Scholarship
Edward T. Oakes may be a good teacher of theology at St. Mary of the Lake, but he is a lousy historian of Darwinism. Witness the following statement from his review of Richard Weikart's work, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary...Posted on December 14, 2006 10:26 PM • 36 Comments
On Agassiz
Today is the anniversary of the death, in 1873, of the Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist, Louis Agassiz (born in 1807) whom I've mentioned before. It is fair to say that Agassiz was the last intellectually respectable creationist in...Posted on December 14, 2006 01:57 AM • 6 Comments
A Sloth for Thanksgiving
This illustration of a rather jovial looking Bradypus tridactylus (three-toed sloth) comes from Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber's Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen ['Mammals Illustrated after Nature with Descriptions', 1774, Vol I II & III]....Posted on November 23, 2006 12:38 AM • 0 Comments
Gould and the worst science books ever
Others have noticed that John Horgan has presented his own personal list of the ten "worst science books." Many of his choices aren't science books per se and he obviously ignores his own excerable The End of Science which was,...Posted on November 22, 2006 03:07 PM • 5 Comments
Discover's 25 Greatest Science Books
From here. The top ten are: 1. and 2. The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin [tie] 3. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton (1687) 4....Posted on November 20, 2006 09:30 AM • 18 Comments
Happy Birthday!
As some of you may know, in 1650, the Irish archbishop, James Ussher dated the beginning of the universe using the Book of Genesis and calculated the date of creation to be October 22, 4004 BC. That would make the universe 6002...Posted on October 22, 2006 12:30 AM • 3 Comments
Darwin online
I've been waiting for this for a while. The Darwin Online project is now live and ready for customers - your one-stop-shop for scans and transcriptions of not only Darwin's published works (and reviews thereof) but also his notebooks,...Posted on October 18, 2006 10:51 PM • 5 Comments
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time."
Seen for the first time, October 7th, 1959. "there is no dark side of the Moon really... matter of fact it's all dark"...Posted on October 7, 2006 12:54 AM • 1 Comments
Homo diluvii testis
Today is the anniversary of the birth (in 1672) of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. A major factor in the development of paleontology in Switzerland, he is also considered the founder of paleobotany and his Herbarium diluvianum was a standard through...Posted on August 2, 2006 02:28 AM • 0 Comments
Who am I?
A quick puzzle ... I was born on this day in 1860 and have a 10502 foot peak named after me in Alberta. I helped my better-known husband (whom I married at the age of 54) with his fieldwork in...Posted on July 31, 2006 08:50 AM • 7 Comments
In which Lynch witnesses a Great Fire and Sir Isaac
I'm actually finding it remarkably easy to answer this question. I'd have to go for the period after 1660, in London, and thus during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Sure, you had to be a gentleman of privilege, but...Posted on July 19, 2006 02:48 PM • 2 Comments
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