Evolution Before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834

ISBN-13: 9781474445795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

University of St Andrews) Jenkins Bill (History Lecturer

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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Edinburgh’s university and medical schools in the early nineteenth century
The legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment
The University of Edinburgh at the beginning of the nineteenth century
The University of Edinburgh’s medical school
Edinburgh’s extra-mural anatomy schools
Chapter 3: Natural History in Edinburgh, 1779–1832
Natural history in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth century
Robert Jameson and the chair of natural history
Comparative anatomy at the extra-mural medical schools
Natural history, scientific and medical societies
Natural history and science journals
Chapter 4: Geology and evolution
The Wernerian model of earth history
Wernerians and Huttonians in Edinburgh
The story of life as a tale of progressive development
Wernerian geology and transformism
Werner, Lamarck and Geoffroy in Edinburgh
Chapter 5: Edinburgh and Paris
Contemporary transformism in France: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Lamarck in Scotland
The impact of Geoffroy’s theories in Edinburgh
Chapter 6: The legacy of the ‘Edinburgh Lamarckians’
The eclipse of transformism in Edinburgh
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Transmutation without progress: Robert Knox and Hewett Cottrell Watson
The legacy of Darwin’s Edinburgh years
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Bibliography; Unpublished primary sources; Published primary sources; Secondary sources