{"id":115,"date":"2011-06-07T20:04:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-07-26T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:45:11","slug":"darwins-evolution-a-new-gallery-of-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2011\/06\/07\/darwins-evolution-a-new-gallery-of-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin’s Evolution: A New Gallery of Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darwin’s Evolution: Image Gallery<\/span><\/h2>\n

Introduction: From Aristotle to Erasmus Darwin<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\" . . .<\/span> \"\"<\/h3>\n

Pliny the Elder died on Vesuvius (N.I.H.) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Darwin’s Fly-trap (Botanic Garden<\/em>, 1794, author copy)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I. The Natural Historians: Linnaeus, Merian, Buffon, Cuvier, Catesby, Bartram, and Others<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\" . . <\/span> \"\".<\/p>\n

Metamorphosis from The Aurelian<\/em> (Moses Harris, 1766); Mark Catesby’s Ivory-billed woodpecker, (Natural History of Carolina<\/em>, 1731-43) <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

(From an English Edition of Buffon’s System of Natural History<\/em>, 1821) <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

II.\u00a0Venus Fly-traps, Sensitive Plants, and the Great Chain of Being<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"The . . <\/span>\"\"<\/h2>\n

Student drawing, 1829 (Dickinson Special Collections) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mimosa by Kitagawa Sosetsu <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

“The Great Chain of Being” (From Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana<\/em>, 1579)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

III. Erasmus Darwin and “Organic Life Beneath the Ocean Waves”<\/h3>\n

\"\". .<\/span> \"\"<\/p>\n

Wordsworth and Shelley were directly influenced by Charles Darwin’s grandfather<\/span>: (Curtis, Botanic Garden, <\/em>1789: author’s collection)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\". .<\/span> \"\". .<\/p>\n

The portly country doctor (Joseph Wright of Derby) and his first statement of evolution (Temple of Nature, <\/em>author’s collection)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

IV. Luigi Galvani, Giovanni Aldini, and Electric Romanticism<\/h3>\n

\"\". .<\/span> \"\"<\/p>\n

Galvani portrait \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Galvani’s frog-legs laboratory (De Viribus<\/em> electricitatus<\/em>, 1791)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\". . .<\/span> \"\"<\/p>\n

Galvani’s nephew, Giovanni Aldini, extended electrical experiments to human cadavers (left) and cows (Galvanism<\/em>, 1803, 1819) <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

V. Amphibious Thinking and Humanity’s Reptile Relatives<\/h3>\n

\"\". . <\/span>\"\". . <\/a><\/p>\n

Amphibians (Goldsmith’s Animated Nature, <\/em>1774) \u00a0 Frog-fish of Surinam (Universal Magazine<\/em>, 1776)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\". <\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rhinoceroses seemed like creatures from another world; top (Goldsmith, Animated Nature<\/em> 1774), bottom (Barr,\u00a0Buffon<\/em> 1792)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Crocodiles and alligators seemed like dinosaurs come to life (Goldsmith, History of Earth and<\/em> Animated Nature,<\/em> 1774)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

VI. Monkeys, Men, and Man-Apes<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>. . <\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Captive mangabey (Jardine,\u00a0Natural History of Monkeys<\/em> 1833); Familial gorillas, Wood’s Natural History<\/em> (1898)<\/span><\/p>\n

. . <\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A human-looking monkey’s paw (Jardine, 1833) <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>. . .<\/span> \"\"<\/p>\n

“Man of the Woods,” orangutan (Goldsmith, Animated Nature<\/em> 1774) and humanized monkey skeleton from Buffon (1792) <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

VII. Global Exploration and New Forms of Nature<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Maria Sibylla Merian (Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam<\/em>, 1705)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" .\u00a0.<\/span> \"\"<\/p>\n

Chief Mouina (David Porter, Journal <\/em>1814); Bartram described strange North American species (Travels<\/em>, 1791) <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

VIII. Geological Poets and the Fossil Record<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The fossil record added confusion to speculation about the biological past (J. G. Heck,\u00a0Iconographic Encyclopedia 1851<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

Mary Anning with the first plesiosaur, Lyme Regis cliffs in Dorset (<\/span>Dan Quinsey, <\/span>Discovering Fossils<\/em> 2006)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

IX. Charles Darwin in the Galapagos<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

H. M. S. Beagle<\/em> painted by Owen Stanley in 1841<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" . .<\/span> \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Darwin’s finches as he drew them \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Darwin’s giant tortoise from Galapagos Journal<\/em> (author copies, 1890) <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\". .<\/span> \"\"<\/p>\n

Galapagos marine iguana, a rare ocean-going reptile (author photo); \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Blue-footed booby made Darwin laugh (author photo)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

X. The Debate Begins: Separate Creation or Origin of Species?<\/h3>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

Darwin portrait \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Darwin’s head on chimpanzee’s body, with whom he shares 99% genes (Hornet <\/em>magazine 1871)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\". . \"\"<\/p>\n

Thomas Henry Huxley (Vanity Fair<\/em> 1860), captioned “Ape”; Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature<\/em> (1863)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

Conclusion: Two Hundred Years of Evolutionary Thinking<\/h3>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

Gregor Mendel’s pea-pods helped to explain precisely how evolution works; portrait; peas from the Album Benary<\/em> (1876-93) <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" …<\/span>\"\"<\/h4>\n

Audubon’s eagle in Birds of America <\/em>(1840) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Judge John Jones (Dickinson ’77), “The Judge Who Ruled for Darwin” (Scientists and Thinkers<\/em>, 2006) <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/h4>\n

Shells, sea-urchin spines, fossils, shards of lava, bones from fish and birds are crushed and combined to form colorful sand in the Galapagos Islands. Every living thing and nonliving thing returns its chemical and molecular parts to the natural cycle. (author photo) <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

–Ashton Nichols (2008)–<\/h3>\n

– <\/span><\/h3>\n

\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darwin’s Evolution: Image Gallery Introduction: From Aristotle to Erasmus Darwin . . . Pliny the Elder died on Vesuvius (N.I.H.) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Darwin’s Fly-trap (Botanic Garden, 1794, author copy)   I. The Natural Historians: Linnaeus, Merian, Buffon, Cuvier, Catesby, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32524],"tags":[33123,23763],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monograph","tag-charles-darwin","tag-imagery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}