 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - 2006 - Страниц: 360
...presenting himself as a passive witness to active facts rather than as a theorist with an active mind. "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - 2006 - Страниц: 47
...period. Darwin uses the word 'facts' in each of the first three sentences of the Origin of Species: When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Sean B. Carroll - 2006 - Страниц: 326
...would emerge more than twenty years later as On the Origin of Species, the opening lines of which read: When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Melissa Stewart - 2007 - Страниц: 84
...development of his ideas on evolution in the first paragraph of his 1859 book The Origin of Species: "When on board HMS Beagle as Naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the [creatures] inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2014 - Страниц: 318
...quoted, from the Autobiography and to what is said in the Introduction to the Origin, Ed, i, viz. " When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much...to the past inhabitants of that continent." These words, occurring where they do, can only mean one thing, — namely that the facts suggested an evolutionary... | |
 | Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) - 1885 - Страниц: 524
...A.merica, after being pondered for many years, led to the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859. When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - Страниц: 802
...scientific writings — forms the first paragraph of the " Origin of Species." He begins by saying, " When on board HMS ' Beagle ' as naturalist, I was...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Pan American Union - 1935 - Страниц: 1078
...as naturalist, I was struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent. . . . On my return home it occurred to me . . . that something might perhaps be made out on this question... | |
 | Liverpool Biological Society - 1897 - Страниц: 640
...twenty years' patient study and reflection. In the introduction to the book he modestly says ; — relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the later chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species... | |
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When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. 
