James A.

James A. Secord. Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and stealthy Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Pres 2000 Pp xix, 624 $3500 ISBN 0-226-74410-8

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a scientific epic published anonymously in 1844 that traced the evolution of the cosmo from nebulae to humans, was the in the greatest degree sensational non-fiction book of the Victorian era. This is a main division about how it was read. Far more than a application of mind of the reception of its ideas, James Secord's pathbreaking,

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