Charles Darwin In Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years

by John Van Wyhe

Overview

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge have long remained undiscovered. Consequently his day-to-day life there has remained unknown and misunderstood. This book is based on new research, including newly discovered manuscripts and Darwin publications, and gathers together recollections of those who knew Darwin as a student. This book therefore reveals Darwin's time in Cambridge in unprecedented detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814583978
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/24/2014
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Early life 1809-1825 1

Edinburgh University 1825-1827 5

Coming Up to Cambridge 9

First Year at Cambridge 33

Second Year at Cambridge 65

Third Year at Cambridge 81

Last Terms at Cambridge 93

Voyage of the Beagle - and Return to Cambridge 103

The Origin of Species and Honorary Cambridge Degree 111

1909: The First Darwin Centenary in Cambridge 125

2009: The Second Darwin Centenary in Cambridge 137

Acknowledgements 147

Appendix 1 149

Appendix 2 175

References 183

Index 191