Autobiography and Selected Essays

Autobiography and Selected Essays

by Percy Bysshe Thomas Henry Huxley
     
 

Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th century British biologist known as DarwinŽs Bulldog. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution. Huxley was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the second half of the nineteenth century even… See more details below

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Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th century British biologist known as DarwinŽs Bulldog. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution. Huxley was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the second half of the nineteenth century even though he had very little schooling and was primarily self-taught. The Table of Contents includes The life of Huxley, Subject-matter, structure, and style of essays, Suggested studies, Autobiography On improving natural knowledge, A liberal education, On a piece of chalk, The principal subjects of education, The method of scientific investigation, On the physical basis of life, and On coral and coral reefs

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ISBN-13:
9781438534916
Publisher:
Standard Publications, Incorporated
Publication date:
03/09/2010
Pages:
122
Product dimensions:
7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.26(d)

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