Grant Jacobs • Dec 07, 2009 •
A collection of interesting titbits to lighten up a mundane Monday evening... [caption id="attachment_794" align="aligncenter" width="388" caption="Malaria in Eastern USA in 1870 (Source Library of Congress digital history collection, via Mystery Rays from Outer Space)"][/caption] … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Nov 24, 2009 •
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES was published in London on 24 November 1859, while Darwin was taking the water-cure at Ilkley. It was a very ordinary-looking volume bound in sturdy green cloth, 502 pages long, and somewhat expensively priced at fourteen shillings, not nearly as gaily decked out as Murray's red-and-gilt version of Darwin's earlier Journal of Researches … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Oct 02, 2009 •
Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for new audiences by Bernard Lightman … Read More