HIST 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Deism, Ornithology, Uniformitarianism
20 Apr 2016
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02/04/2016: darwin"s path to publication 1831-44: beagle voyage, chambers. Paragraph 1: imaginary pictures of catastrophes and chaotic confusion. empirical, observational method use of language to emphasize the long process of geological development and the absurd, imaginative ideas of catastrophists. Fluidity between plant and animal observations can be translated to society. An increase of society will limit the increase of resources and cause a crises. Population increases in a geometrical ratio while subsistence increases in an arithmetical ratio arithmetical sequences add or subtract from a value; geometrical sequences multiply or divide from a value. September 1835 darwin arrived in the galapagos. Collected specimens such as terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles, plant life, etc. Myth: darwin converted to transmutation after a eureka" moment in the galapagos islands that inspired his organized collection of specimens. Darwin did not initially notice the diversification of finches between the islands; he noticed the island-specific mockingbirds (considered transmutation as an explanation)
