The excellent news that two very important manuscripts by the naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) were recovered by the Cambridge University library, in the UK, after being missing for over 20 years, it was a breath of fresh air around here. (I don’t know if the reader noticed, but we’ve been in need of some good news.) It turns out that, with or without the researcher’s original papers, anyone with a good internet connection already you can directly consult his texts.
If you know English, it’s worth a visit. to the website Darwin Online (darwin-online.org.uk). Edited by science historian John van Wyhe of the National University of Singapore, the portal brings together a monumental amount of scanned pages from Darwinian manuscripts, along with transcripts of texts in them, as well as PDF files of older editions of his books, including the indefectible “The Origin of Species”.
In total, for now, there are 220,000 pages in text format, 226,000 in image format, 10,000 illustrations from Darwin’s books and works in 29 languages. The complete contents (texts and images) of both the stolen and recovered notebooks (designated by the letters B and C) are on the website. There’s even a CHECK for £100 signed by the guy. Serious. And finally, some texts on the scientist’s biography, including a discussion of his complicated relationship with religious belief.
Follow me on social media:
Reinaldo José Lopes (@reinaldojlopes) / Twitter
Reinaldo José Lopes (@reinaldojoselopes) • Photos and videos from Instagram
Reinaldo José Lopes – YouTube
