ENGB45H3 Lecture 8: 4.2 History _ Science_ Pushing at the Past (Part 2)
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Adds to notion of progress: improving of the species that comes about from the worsening (birds killing bugs to survive); destruction = moving forward. Travelogue: description, narrative, persuasion (wouldn"t you like to go?) Future history: all of the above with emphasis on persuasion. Geological relations to the present from past; how to solve the mystery of mysteries. History itself is kind of a mystery. Origin is part of a history of scientific writing. Theories of evolution did not just begin with darwin; there were more writers that were taking up this idea of evolution (erasmus darwin, charles lyell, joseph hooker, Professor of geology adam sedgwick said 20 years before that there"s more to the. History is an implicit argument creation of the earth than just god. Bishop james usher counted the bible to see when the earth was created (apparently created. Sunday, 23 october, 4004 b. c); this was common belief for quite a while.
