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The Darwin Correspondence Project exists to publish the definitive edition of letters to and from Charles Darwin, the most influential naturalist of the 19th century: when complete the series will comprise approximately 30 volumes.
The Darwin Correspondence Project exists to publish the definitive edition of letters to and from Charles Darwin, the most influential naturalist of the 19th century: when complete the series will comprise approximately 30 volumes.
Joseph Dalton Hooker was arguably the most important British botanist of the nineteenth century. A traveller and plant-collector, he was one of Charles Darwin’s closest friends and eventually became director of Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
The image on the left shows the house in Halesworth, Suffolk, where Hooker was born in 1817. A plaque (inset) commemorates the fact.
These pages are intended to provide some basic information about Joseph Hooker
Few sites offer much information about Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the Kew Gardens botanist who worked closely with Charles Darwin while exploring the impact of natural selection on flora. This easily navigated site, produced by a University of Cambridge graduate student, fills this gap to some extent. The thorough biography that includes a brief sketch of Hooker's friendship with Charles Darwin compliments the bibliography of Hooker and links to history of botany sites around the world. Most significantly, the site also points researchers toward archives around the world that host collections relevant to the life and work of Joseph Dalton Hooker. The site does not include primary documents such as the correspondence of or articles written by Hooker.
Robert Hooke's father was John Hooke who was a curate at All Saints Church in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. Although formally a curate, since the minister was also Dean of Gloucester Cathedral and of Wells, John Hooke was left in charge of All Saints. It was a well off church being in the patronage of St John's College, Cambridge. As well as his duties in the church, John Hooke also ran a small school attached to the church and acted as a private tutor. Robert had a brother named John, the same as his father, who was five years older.
"Faith and Reason" is an hour-length documentary about the interaction between science and religion, both historically and today. Through interviews with leading scientists and theologians, the program explores the history of the relationship between these two fields, and reveals that, contrary to widespread popular opinion, for most of history science and religion have been deeply entwined. Moreover, the program looks at a growing movment of scientists and theologians around the world today who believe that faith and reason can support one another. Here we consider issues in evolutionary biology, cosmology, genetics, and technology.
Welcome to the Electronic Grosseteste, a web-site dedicated to providing electronic access to the Latin works of Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1170-1253). Materials relating to Grosseteste's life, and the thirteenth century may also be found here. The first phase of this project has recently received funding from the British Academy Users are welcome to make copies of public domain texts, but there are copyright notices concerning specific texts and images . This site went will continue to expand over the next two years. All comments are welcome, especially those that will enhance its usefulness
I størst oplag kom dog den klassiske tier, der ligesom plovmanden skiftede tekst fra den viste til "Nationalbankens sedler indløses med guld efter gældende lov" i 1930. Nederst vises Heilmanns første udkast til tieren. Der er sket væsentlige ændringer mellem det og det endelige resultat.
Elisha Gray (born in Barnesville, Ohio, on Aug. 2, 1835, died Newtonville, Mass., on Jan. 21, 1901) would have been known to us as the inventor of the telephone if Alexander Graham bell hadn't got to the patent office one hour before him. Instead, he goes down in history as the accidental creator of one of the first electronic musical instruments - a chance by-product of his telephone technology.
Jean-Henri Casimir FABRE was born in Saint Léons in France on December 22, 1823. He spent the first years of his youth at Le Malaval, very close to his native village, with his grandparents
Quoting from Upside "Our list of the 100 most influential people in the digital age. After much internal cacophony and only a few casualties, UPSIDE's editorial board presents the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE's Elite 100. We chose them from a pool of digerati nominated by a select group of industry analysts and experts (thanks, but no thanks, for all those self-nominations, folks). This year we used a new approach: We rated our virtuosos according to their influence within their industry segment. This keeps skilled newcomers such as Katrina Garnett and Steve Perlman from being drowned out by soloists Andy Grove and Masayoshi Son. Let us know if you enjoy the resulting performance."
Since about 1895, Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy, (born in 1857) works on the idea of a rocket-propelled spaceship in the relative obscurity, in the town of Kaluga southwest of Moscow.