HIS-3464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin, Spontaneous Generation
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Begins in england: the steam engine, mechanization of labor. Major shift in human working conditions: craftsmen to manual labor. Historical debates: standard of living: increase in the standard of living. You now see a bigger division of social classes: conditions, timescale. Carl von linne: static creations: species are unchangeable. John ray: design hand, eyeball: there is a sort of a design that makes up the world. The species has to be designed to be in a environment: darwin flips this: darwin believes that the environment determines the species. Buffon: spontaneous generation: things come from nothing, things just pop up. Darwin is in a scientific environment because of his family. The giraffe: they stretch out their necks so much that they begin to grow a longer neck. Two very important grandfathers: erasmus darwin, josiah wedgwood. Trained in medicine for 2 years: found lectures boring. Offered to be the naturalist for the hms beagle. Made geological, zoological, entomological, and botanical collections.
