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  • Richard Owen's Reaction to Transmutation in the 1830's

  • Adrian Desmond
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / March 1985
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 25-50
    Print publication:
    March 1985

  • Following Michael Bartholomew's study of ‘Lyell and Evolution’ in 1973, scholars have become increasingly interested in the response of gentlemen geologists to Lamarckism during the reign of William IV (1830–7). Bartholomew contended that Charles Lyell was ‘alone in scenting the danger’ for man of using transmutation to explain fossil progression, and that he reacted to the threat of bestialisation by restructuring palaeontology along safe non-progressionist lines. Like his Anglican contemporaries, Lyell was concerned to prove that man was no transformed ape, and that morals were not the better part of brute instinct. Dov Ospovat has subsequently suggested that Lyell's theory of climate was equally an attempt to thwart the transformists and ‘preserve man's unique status in creation’. In other words, Lyell's biology and geology were inextricably related in Principles of Geology and his ideology affected his science as a whole. Finally, Pietro Corsi has identified the Continental materialists who most probably alerted Lyell to the danger, intimating that a conservative British response became imperative when Lyell ‘saw signs of the diffusion of transformism in England itself, where it could even form an unholy alliance with prevailing progressionist and directionalist interpretations of the history of life on earth’.

  • Wissenschaft in Worstedopolis: Public Science in Bradford, 1800–1850

  • J. B. Morrell
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / March 1985
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    05 January 2009, pp. 1-23
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    March 1985
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  • I take as my text today an epistle of John—John Phillips writing from Birmingham in 1839: ‘in quieter towns like … York … peace, good order, [and] leisure favour the expansion of a philosophical spirit’.

  • BJH volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / March 1985
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    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b2
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    March 1985
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  • BJH volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / March 1985
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f3
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    March 1985
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