300 Previously Unpublished Charles Darwin Letters To Be Posted Online
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[quote]In a move that would have been unimaginable to the Victorian-age gentleman, the University of Cambridge is undertaking the largest-yet upload of letters to and from Charles Darwin. The university will post images of 1,200 letters online, including 300 letters that were previously unpublished.
The letters are between Darwin and his bff, botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, with whom he worked out the theory of evolution, edited The Origin of Species, and talked about travel, literature, and family life. ("Did you administer the Chloroform?" Darwin asked Hooker upon hearing about the birth of Hooker's first daughter. Darwin was a fan of chloroform for both father and mother during births.) The two exchanged 1,400 letters over their lifetimes, making up 10 percent of Darwin's surviving correspondence.
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[url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-03/300-previously-unpublished-darwin-letters-be-posted-online[/url]
[url]http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/editors-blog/2013/03/27/382/[/url]
Neat. Having more personal insight will be fascinating from a behavioral perspective.
It's so cool that things like this are even possible, I love this time period.
[QUOTE=Killer900;40067768]It's so cool that things like this are even possible, I love this time period.[/QUOTE]
You should see something like Early English Books Online. Thousands upon thousands of entire English books with page lengths stretching from the hundreds to the thousands all scanned and uploaded online, dating from the 15th to the start of the 18th century. Now that is impressive.
Unrelated, but related tangentially, my father is a lawyer and he recently ran into a mortgage document from 1770 that tied its client to that mortgage for 500 years, a generational mortgage as it where, and he had to decipher the documents old English text by hand.
The past really holds some amazing secrets and forgotten things. It's so cool.
To think, through Science and technology a man's letters can be preserved for million's to read from all across the world.
It's amazing.
Did that article just refer to Darwin and Hooker being bffs? Is that even a word nowadays?
[QUOTE=Benjimon007;40070901]Did that article just refer to Darwin and Hooker being bffs? Is that even a word nowadays?[/QUOTE]
It's Popsci, they're great with getting information out, just not doing it the best worded way :v:
[quote]The two exchanged 1,400 letters over their lifetimes, making up 10 percent of Darwin's surviving correspondence[/quote]
He wrote [i]7,000[/i] letters? And those are just the remaining ones? Jesus Christ, no wonder it took him 20 years to publish On The Origin Of Species. His wrist must have been worn down to dust.
[QUOTE=QwertySecond;40076793]He wrote [i]7,000[/i] letters? And those are just the remaining ones? Jesus Christ, no wonder it took him 20 years to publish On The Origin Of Species. His wrist must have been worn down to dust.[/QUOTE]
At the time, it was the only way to communicate long distances. I'm sure everyone's hand muscles were much more stronger back then than today.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40068537]To think, through Science and technology a man's letters can be preserved for million's to read from all across the world.
It's amazing.[/QUOTE]
And at best only one in a million will bother to read.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40077702]At the time, it was the only way to communicate long distances. I'm sure everyone's hand muscles were much more stronger back then than today.[/QUOTE]
well I don't know, there was no internet so no porn, average wrist strength must have been terrible
100+ years later, still as controversial as abortion,
good job Darwin, you've won the "being too l33t" award from the future
too bad these letters won't stop idiots from suppressing his [B]proven[/B] theory
[editline]28th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40077702]At the time, it was the only way to communicate long distances. I'm sure everyone's hand muscles were much more stronger back then than today.[/QUOTE]
ah so thats why self pleasure was taboo back then
[QUOTE]Darwin and his bff, brotanist Joseph Dalton Hooker[/QUOTE]
fixed
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