Vestiges of the natural history of creation ; together with, Explanations : a sequel
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Vestiges of the natural history of creation ; together with, Explanations : a sequel
（Cambridge library collection, . Darwin）
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Facsim. of 5th ed. published: London : J. Churchill, 1846 (Vestiges of ...). Facsim. of 2nd ed. published: London : J. Churchill, 1846 (Explanations)
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- Explanations : a sequel to "Vestiges of the natural history of creation"
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844. Starting with the genesis of the solar system, it progresses systematically through such topics as the formation of the earth, the origins of marine life, the emergence of reptiles, birds and other life forms, and the evolution of human life. Drawing widely upon contemporary ideas from astronomy, biology, geology, linguistics, and anthropology, it seeks to establish the 'hypothesis of an organic creation by natural law'. Preceding Darwin's Origin of Species by fifteen years, Vestiges ignited a storm of controversy by pitting natural law and its role in what would soon come to be known as 'evolution' against the generally accepted Victorian belief that the universe was created by God. In 1884, it was revealed that the author was the British publisher Robert Chambers. This fifth edition of the work also contains its 1845 sequel, Explanations.
Table of Contents
- 1. The bodies of space - their arrangements and formation
- 2. Constituent materials of the Earth and of the other Bodies of Space
- 3. The Earth formed - Era of the Primary Rocks
- 4. Commencements of Organic Life - sea plants, corals, etc.
- 5. Era of the Old Red Sandstone - fishes abundant
- 6. Secondary Rocks - Era of the Carboniferous Formation - Commencement of land plants
- 7. Era of the New Red Sandstone - Terrestrial Zoology commences with reptiles - first traces of birds
- 8. Era of the Oolite - Commencement of Mammalia
- 9. Era of the Cretaceous Formation
- 10. Era of the Tertiary Formation - Mammalia abundant
- 11. Era of the Superficial Formations - Commencemnt of present species
- 12. General considerations respecting the origin of the animated tribes
- 13. Particular considerations respecting the origin of the animated tribes
- 14. Hypothesis of the development of the vegetable and animal kingdoms
- 15. Affinities and geographical distributions of organisms
- 16. Early history of mankind
- 17. Mental constitution of animals
- 18. Purpose and general condition of the animated creation
- 19. Note conclusory
- Appendix.
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