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Origins: Order vs. Chaos
November 14, 2017, 7:00 PM
Free
This lecture by Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, takes readers inside Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species and shows why it can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published. An immediate and influential sensation in 1859, the book sold its first print run in one day and profoundly shocked Victorian readers with its description of evolution through natural selection. Janet Browne, widely acclaimed as “Darwin’s biographer,” explains Darwin’s readings as a university student, his five-year voyage on the Beagle, his experiments in his home and garden, his correspondence and debates with other naturalists, and his urgency to publish his theory of evolution.
Location: Room 100, Lovejoy Bldg., Colby College, Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville.
Contact: Megan Fossa, mefossa@colby.edu, 859-4165.