Janet Browne

No book has changed our understanding of ourselves more than Darwins Origin of Species. It caused a sensation on its first day of publication in 1859 and went on to become an international bestseller. The idea that living things gradually evolve through natural selection profoundly shocked its Victorian readers, calling into question what had been for many the unshakeable belief that there was a Creator.In this book, Janet Browne, Charles Darwins foremost biographer, shows why Darwins Origin of Species can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published. She describes the genesis of Darwins theories, explains how they were initially received and examines why they remain so contentious today. Her book is a marvellously readable account of the work that altered forever our knowledge of what it is to be human.

No book has changed our understanding of ourselves more than "Darwin's Origin of Species". It caused a sensation on its first day of publication in 1859 and went on to become an international bestseller. The idea that living things gradually evolve through natural selection profoundly shocked its Victorian readers, calling into question what had been for many the unshakeable belief that there was a Creator. In this book, Janet Browne, Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, shows why "Darwin's Origin of Species" can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published. She describes the genesis of Darwin's theories, explains how they were initially received and examines why they remain so contentious today. Her book is a marvellously readable account of the work that altered forever our knowledge of what it is to be human.

Extraordinaria aproximación a la obra que sentó las bases de la biología y de la ciencia moderna, a su autor y a la sociedad de su tiempo.La historiadora de la ciencia Janet Browne, especialista en el siglo XIX y biografa de Darwin, profundiza en los aspectos mas destacados y controvertidos de El origen de las especies y de su artifice, el genial cientifico que reflejo en esta obra sus experiencias de las expediciones a bordo del "Beagle". Las conclusiones anticreacionsitas de su teoria marcaron un antes y un despues en la concepcion de los sres vivos, y el encendido debate que origino sigue latente en la actualidad.

Poques històries de grans homes ofereixen tant d'interés i tants misteris com la vida de Charles Darwin, el científic més significatiu del segle XIX, les idees del qual encara inspiren descobriments

Charles Darwin cambió de forma radical e irreversible la visión que tenemos de nosotros mismos y de nuestro mundo, y puede decirse que su teoría de la evolución es uno de los mayores logros intelectuales de la historia de la humanidad. Este pequeño libro ofrece al lector una magnifica sintesis de la trayectoria vital y las teorias de Darwin, escrita por tres de las principales autoridades mundiales sobre su vida y su pensamiento. Lejos de perfilar una hagiografia intelectual del genial naturalista ingles, los autores presentan a un Darwin profusamente encarnado en la vida social, politico-economica y religiosa de su tiempo.

This concluding volume of Janet Brownes biography covers the transformation in Darwins life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory of evolution by natural selection and the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. Always a private man, Darwin found himself a controversial figure, reviewed and discussed in circles that stretched far beyond the boundaries of Victorian science. Janet Browne here examines the wider publishing world of Victorian England and the different audiences that responded to the ideas of one of the leading thinkers of the nineteenth century and considers the Darwinian revolution from Darwins point of view.

Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging, the first volume of this acclaimed biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist. The second and final volume of Janet Brownes biography of Darwin - The Power of Place - is also available from Pimlico.

El 1858, Charles Darwin era un científic que duia una vida afable en Down House, al comtat de Kent. El biòleg encara no es trobava en el focus del debat; el seu «gran llibre sobre les espècies» encar