Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts

"Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's...

Engels | 400 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Rebecca Stott The coral thief

Een Schotse student komt in het Parijs van direct na de val van Napoleon terecht in een wereld van wetenschappers die het geld voor hun passie verdienen met het stelen van kunstschatten en rariteiten.

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Engels | 248 pagina's | Phoenix, London | 2010

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