Darwin and the Barnacle
Published on 30. April 2015
336 pages
978-0-571-31779-0 (ISBN)
Description
Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott, lavishly illustrated and superbly told, is the fascinating story of how genius sometimes proceeds through indirection - and how one small item of curiosity contributed to history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-31779-0 (9780571317790)
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Rebecca Stott
Darwin and the Barnacle
The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
Book
05/2004
WW Norton & Co
€18.50
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Person
Rebecca Stott is a writer, academic and radio broadcaster. She teaches in the English Literature Department of Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge and is an affiliated scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. She has no aquarium and enjoys seafood. She lives in Cambridge and no longer dreams of barnacles.
