Browsing by Author "Browne, Janet"
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An Appreciation of Christiane Groeben: The Correspondence between Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn
Browne, Janet E (Springer Science + Business Media, 2015) -
Asa Gray and Charles Darwin: Corresponding Naturalists
Browne, Janet E (Harvard University Herbaria, 2010)Recent work on the rise of science in the nineteenth century has encouraged historians to look again at the role of correspondence. Naturalists relied extensively on this form of contact and correspondence was a major ... -
Birthdays to Remember
Browne, Janet E (Nature Publishing Group, 2008) -
Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and "The Loves of the Plants"
Browne, Janet E (1989) -
Catesby's World: England
Browne, Janet E (University of Georgia Press, 2015) -
A CD-Rom on Medicine in Literature
Browne, Janet E (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) -
Charles Darwin and ideology: Rethinking the Darwinian revolution
Browne, Janet E (Universitat de Valencia, 2016)This short paper critiques the idea of any coherent Darwinian ideology. Charles Darwin himself did not adopt any obvious ideology, except perhaps that of anti-slavery. However, his published work, and that of other ... -
Charles Darwin as a Celebrity
Browne, Janet E (Cambridge University Press, 2003)Several recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenth-century scientific celebrity by comparing ... -
Charles Darwin: Traveller, author, and naturalist
Browne, Janet E (W.H. Freeman, 2011) -
Corresponding Naturalists
Browne, Janet E (Pickering & Chatto, 2014) -
Darwin in Caricature: A Study in the Popularisation and Dissemination of Evolution
Browne, Janet E (The American Philosophical Society, 2001) -
Darwin's Botanical Arithmetic and the Principle of Divergence, 1854-1858
Browne, Janet E (Springer Verlag, 1980) -
Darwinism in popular culture
Browne, Janet E (American Philosophical Society, 2012) -
Dinosaurs: Assembling an Icon of Science
Rieppel, Lukas Benjamin (2013-03-08)This dissertation examines how the modern dinosaur—fully mounted, freestanding assemblages of vertebrate fossils such as we are accustomed to seeing at the natural history museum—came into being during the late 19th and ... -
“I am going to do it": The Complex Question of Action in Theology and Science in the Life of America's First Woman Minister, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)
Hutton, Nancy Sue (2015-05-11)Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) became one of the most outspoken and remarkable women of her era: an ordained minister, a published author, a prominent public speaker, and a philosophical thinker whose writings ... -
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe
Browne, Janet E (Oxford University Press, 2008) -
Museum, Laboratory, and Field Site: Graduate Training in Zoology at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1873-1934
Tonn, Jenna Alexandra (2015-09-08)This dissertation examines the development of graduate training in zoology at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges under E. L. Mark between 1873 and 1934. It focuses on the changing spatial, institutional, and intellectual ... -
Officers and Council Members of the British Society for the History of Science, 1947–97
Browne, Janet E (Cambridge University Press, 1997)As described elsewhere in this issue of BJHS, preliminary steps towards founding a society for the history of science in Britain were taken in 1946. A meeting was held at the Science Museum, London, on 22 November 1946, ... -
The Other Beetle-Hunter
Barry, Andrew; Browne, Janet E (Nature Publishing Group, 2008) -
Presidential Address Commemorating Darwin
Browne, Janet E (Cambridge University Press, 2005)This text draws attention to former ideologies of the scientific hero in order to explore the leading features of Charles Darwin's fame, both during his lifetime and beyond. Emphasis is laid on the material record of ...