Richard Owen

Name: Richard Owen
Brand: Reaktion Books
SKU: 9781789147629
Price: 2700 KES
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ISBN: 9781789147629

by Patrick Armstrong

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Critical Lives

ISBN-10 178914762X

ISBN-13 9781789147629

Publisher Reaktion Books

Imprint Reaktion Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 1st, 2023

Print length 168 Pages

Weight 270 grams

Dimensions 13.00 x 20.00 x 1.20 cms

Product Classification: Biography: science, technology & medicine Biography: science, technology and medicine

KSh 2,700.00

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A new account of the brilliant and influential yet combative naturalist Richard Owen.

Brilliant, hard-working, immensely productive and influential, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great promoter of science, and played a large role in shaping London’s Natural History Museum. An often difficult and arrogant individual, he was accused of plagiarism and bullying, and is the only man whom Charles Darwin claimed to hate. Although strongly opposed to Darwin and Thomas Huxley’s theories of evolution through natural selection, there is evidence that a few of Owen’s ideas were not so very distant from theirs. This biography gives an account of Owen’s life and work, providing possible psychological and social reasons for his more controversial characteristics and his sometimes rather strained relations with various scientific contemporaries.

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