The document is estimated to fetch more than a million pounds, a record price for a Darwin manuscript.
A piece of paper signed by Charles Darwin with text, in which he defends the Theory of Evolution, goes under the hammer from Sotheby’s, New York.
The document is estimated to fetch more than a million pounds, a record price for a Darwin manuscript.
Darwin was not in the habit of archiving his writings, so little original material survives. In texts that have been found, he signed himself as ‘C Darwin’ or ‘Ch Darwin’. He very rarely wrote his full name ‘Charles Darwin’.
Professor John van Wye, who curates the scientific collection known as Darwin Online, told the BBC that the document is particularly special.
“It includes a passage that appears in the third edition of his work ‘On the Origin of Species,'” explained a lecturer at the National University of Singapore.
“It’s a really favorite quote, because he’s trying to say that people might find his theory incredible and strange, but they argued the same for Newton and gravity, and nobody doubted the existence of gravity anymore.
The same, he says, would ultimately be true of the principle of evolution based on natural selection,” the professor told BBC News.
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