NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Malaria, Dmitri Mendeleev
17 Nov 2018
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British dominance: the french, spanish, english and portuguese all had colonies and naval power leading into the 19th century, the british became the largest and most powerful empire after 1815 when napoleon was defeated. Race: the scientific desire to categorize nature in order to control it extended to the people. Geology: iron and coal were important to empire, for building and fuelling machines, so the british became very interested in funding geological science. Origins of species: by the 19th century, biologists were asking about the origin of species, as some appeared in the fossil record then disappeared. Social darwinism: it did not take long for darwins theory to be interpreted and applied to different areas, one was sociology, herbert spencer interpreted darwins idea as a struggle for existence where only the strong survive. Lecture: darwin"s theory slowly gained popularity in the scientific world, but it met resistance from some scientists who felt it conflicted with religion.
