Online: The complete work of Charles Darwin
The complete work of Charles Darwin
Wow! This is amazing. You really have to see the site to understand it. Not only is the text presented (the words, in ordinary searchable html, like the Gutenberg site), but also scanned images of the original pages. You can read the just the text, view the scanned page images, or see them side-by-side.
WELCOME to the largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever assembled. For a basic, non-academic, entryway click here. For a complete list click contents.
This site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin’s Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin’s context.
Most of the editions provided here appear online for the first time such as the first editions of Journal of Researches [or Voyage of the Beagle] (1839), The descent of Man (1871), The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1838-43) and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the Origin of Species. There are also many newly transcribed and never before published manuscripts such as Darwin’s Beagle field notebooks. Also appearing for the first time online are complete images of Darwin’s early notebooks on geology, transmutation of species and metaphysical enquiries.
Many of the scanned books provided here belonged to Darwin’s family or are signed by him. See for example The life of Erasmus Darwin (1879), Coral reefs (1842) or Variation (1868).
While all his major works are here, it’s only about half of Darwin’s output. The rest should be done by 2009.
More from the BBC Charles Darwin’s works go online
The complete works of one of history’s greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online. The project run by Cambridge University has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications - all of it searchable. Surfers with MP3 players can even access downloadable audio files. The resource is aimed at serious scholars, but can be used by anyone with an interest in Darwin and his theory on the evolution of life.
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