Huxley
From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's Priest
Published on 2. July 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
848 pages
978-0-14-017309-3 (ISBN)
Description
The acclaimed two-volume biography of Huxley comes in one-volume and in paperback for the first time. 'Among historians of 19th-century British science, Adrian Desmond reigns as the current master of studies in a social context as a necessary matrix of all intellectual innovation ... In completing his two volume biography of T. H. Huxley ... Desmond has beautifully consummated the marriage of his unique skills with their ideal subject' Stephen Jay Gould, The Times 'Nobody writes scientific biography like Adrian Desmond, and this account of Huxley's progress, from Ealing, via evolution, to Eastbourne, is his best so far' Roy Porter, Times Literary Supplement
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-017309-3 (9780140173093)
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Adrian Desmond's internationally bestselling and award-winning books include Darwin (co-authored with James Moore) and The Politics of Evolution. An Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department at University College London, he studied at London University and Harvard, has higher degrees in vertebrate paleontology and history of science, and a Ph.D for his work on Victorian evolution.