Research Catalog

Title

The major prose of Thomas Henry Huxley / edited by Alan P. Barr.

Author

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barr, Alan P.

Description

xxii, 366 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was one of the intellectual giants of Victorian England. A surgeon by training, he became the principal exponent of Darwinism and popularizer of "scientific naturalism." Huxley was a prolific essayist, and his writings put him at the center of intellectual debate in England during the later half of the nineteenth century. The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley fills a very real and pressing chasm in history of science books, bringing together almost all of Huxley's major nontechnical prose, including Man's Place in Nature and both "Evolution in Ethics" and its "Prolegomena."

Series Statement

University of Georgia Humanities Center series on science and the humanities

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections
• University of Georgia Humanities Center series on science and the humanities

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subjects

• 1800-1899
• Biographies
• History
• Religion
• Biological Evolution
• Scientists > Great Britain > Biography
• Science > Moral and ethical aspects > England > History > 19th century
• Religion and science > England > History > 19th century
• Science > England > History > 19th century
• Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A Lobster; or, the Study of Zoology (1861) -- Man's Place in Nature (1863) -- On a Piece of Chalk (1868) -- On the Physical Basis of Life (1868) -- The Coming of Age of "The Origin of Species" (1880) -- A Liberal Education; and Where to Find It (1868) -- Science and Culture (1880) -- The Method of Zadig (1880) -- Agnosticism (1889) -- Evolution and Ethics. Prolegomena (1894). Evolution and Ethics (1893) -- Select Letters -- Selected Bibliography.

ISBN

0820318647 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96013712^//r97

OCLC

• 34472905
• SCSB-12729780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library