Influential natural historian and Biology Charles Darwin Extensive personal The library will be published entirely online for the first time.
Scientists said the collection, much of which was previously unknown or unpublished material, showed the ‘extraordinary extent’ of Darwin’s research.
A three-hundred-page catalog will detail the personal library, which includes 7,400 titles and 13,000 volumes.
Previous lists covered only 15% of the library, which included books, pamphlets and journals on subjects such as biology, geology, philosophy, psychology and religion, as well as art, history and travel.
The material also contains a German journal containing the first known photograph of bacteria.
Most works are in English, although half have been published in other languages, including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish.
The volume and range of works in the library demonstrate the extraordinary range of Darwin’s research into the work of others.
The project – The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online – spans 18 years and is being published to mark Mr Darwin’s 215th birthday.
It was led by Dr John Wayne Wye at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Biological Sciences.
He said: ‘This unprecedentedly detailed view of Darwin’s complete library allows one to understand more than ever that he was not an isolated figure working alone, but a master of his time who shared the knowledge of thousands of people. Based on the latest science And were working on the investigation.’
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‘Indeed, the volume and range of works in the library demonstrate the extraordinary range of Darwin’s research into the work of others.’
The project also includes a virtual reconstruction of the library, with 9,300 links to copies available for free.
Darwin died in 1882 and his house inventory contained over 2,000 books.
Researchers used a 426-page handwritten catalog from 1875, comparing its short entries to reveal 440 unknown titles originally in the library.
Other sources include lists of pamphlets, his reading notebooks, the diaries of his wife Emma Darwin, books given to the Cambridge Botany School in 1908, and the 30 volumes of Darwin’s correspondence, a collection of letters the biologist sent around the world. were written to the people of
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2024-08-08 19:27:01
