عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QH31.H2 R53 2008eb
QH31
.
H2
R53
2008eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0226712192
(Number (ISBN
1281966304
(Number (ISBN
6611966307
(Number (ISBN
9780226712192
(Number (ISBN
9781281966308
(Number (ISBN
9786611966300
Erroneous ISBN
0226712141
Erroneous ISBN
9780226712147
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b793465
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The tragic sense of life :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought /
First Statement of Responsibility
Robert J. Richards.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xx, 551 pages, 8 pages of plates) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-540) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction -- Formation of a romantic biologist -- Research in Italy and conversion to Darwinism -- Triumph and tragedy at Jena -- Evolutionary morphology in the Darwinian mode -- Travel to England and the Canary Islands : experimental justification of evolution -- The popular presentation of evolution -- The rage of the critics -- The religious response to evolutionism : ants, embryos, and Jesuits -- Love in a time of war -- Conclusion : the tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than through any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. Haeckel's books vastly outsold Darwin's in their own time, and today, his extraordinary scientific illustrations adorn books, posters, and coffee mugs. Haeckel gave currency to the idea of the "missing link" between apes and man, formulated the concept of ecology, and promulgated the "biogenetic law"--The idea that the embryo of an advanced specie.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
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MIL
Stock Number
196630
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Tragic sense of life.
International Standard Book Number
0226712141
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Haeckel, Ernst,1834-1919.
Haeckel, Ernst,1834-1919.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Biologists-- Germany, Biography.
Evolution (Biology)-- History.
Zoologists-- Germany, Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.
Biologists.
Evolution (Biology)
NATURE-- Reference.
SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Biology.
SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- General.
Zoologists.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Germany.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
BIO-- 015000
NAT-- 027000
PSAJ
SCI-- 008000
SCI-- 086000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
B
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QH31
.
H2
Book number
R53
2008eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Richards, Robert J., (Robert John),1942-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201207063728.0
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Electronic name
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