History of Science
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Book review: ‘Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, adventure, and swimming iguana’s in Charles Darwin’s South America’ by Eric Simons
Young travel writer follows in the footsteps of Darwin.
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Book review: ‘Darwin and the Barnacle’ by Rebecca Stott
Charles Darwin’s eight-year barnacle odyssey.
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Book review: ‘HMS Beagle’ by Keith S Thomson
The ship that changed the course of history.
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Book review: ‘The Lunar Men’ by Jenny Uglow
The Friends who Made the Future, 1730–1810
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Book review: ‘Darwin in Cambridge’ by John van Wyhe
A useful booklet about Darwin’s Cambridge connections.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary’ by R.D. Keynes (ed.)
An annotated version of the journal Darwin kept aboard HMS Beagle.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin, Geologist’ by Sandra Herbert
What Charles Darwin did for geology.
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Book review: ‘The Evolutionists’ by J. David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.
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Book review: ‘The Age of Wonder’ by Richard Holmes
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
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Book review: ‘Of Moths & Men’ by Judith Hooper
The story of how some of Bernard Kettlewell’s famous peppered moth experiments contained certain flaws.
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Book review: ‘The Great Naturalists’ by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
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Book review: ‘The Eye’ by Simon Ings
How animals see and how they perceive.