| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile |
| Author: |
SchellPatience A., 1970- |
| Place of Publication: |
New York, NY |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 297 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology |
| Subject: |
Natural history - Chile. - |
| Subject: |
Naturalists. - |
| Subject: |
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution - |
| Personal Subject: |
Darwin - Charles - |
| Personal Subject: |
Gay - Claudio - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137286062 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
Before genetics and the mapping of DNA, before ecology and global warming, adventurous and foolhardy souls were compelled into the wild because of their insatiable curiosity about the natural world. The work of these naturalists was intensely sociable: they explored together, dashed off irate letters to colleagues, haggled over specimens, commiserated over family tragedies, and extracted favors from one another. And no one better exemplified this than the European scientists who were drawn to Chile in the nineteenth century. This beautifully written history begins with a familiar pairing - Charles Darwin and Captain Robert Fitz-Roy aboard the Beagle - and goes on to trace the fortunes of colorful figures such as the happy-go-lucky Prussian adventurer Bernardo Philippi, who was murdered by indigenous people in the Strait of Magellan, and Claudio Gay, an amateur French botanist who beclme the father of the natural sciences in Chile. These Europeans taught Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world. |
| ISBN: |
9781137286062electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137286067electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Friendship, Science and Chilean Nature The Making of a Naturalist Chile and the Scientific Imagination Making Friends in Chile Darwin, Gay and the Utility of Chile The Prussian Connection A New Naturalist in Town Expanding the Web At the End of Their Days Epilogue: Reflections on the Life of a Fly Catcher. |