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1860 Oxford evolution debate

Index 1860 Oxford evolution debate

The 1860 Oxford evolution debate took place at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England, on 30 June 1860, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. [1]

68 relations: A Short History of Nearly Everything, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Newton, American Scientist, Anglicanism, Aristocracy, Ashgate Publishing, Associated University Presses, Astronomer, Baden Powell (mathematician), Balfour Stewart, Benjamin Disraeli, Bishop of Oxford, British Science Association, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Charles Daubeny, Charles Kingsley, Christianity, Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Creation–evolution controversy, Crispin Whittell, Darwin in Malibu, David Brewster, Edinburgh Review, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, Essays and Reviews, Fellow of the Royal Society, Francis Darwin, Geologist, Great Hippocampus Question, Henry Fawcett, Hippocampus (journal), History of science, John Hedley Brooke, John Stevens Henslow, John William Draper, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Liberal Christianity, List of presidents of the Royal Society, Liverpool Mercury, Natural History Museum, London, New York University, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Quarterly Review, Radicalism (historical), Richard Owen, ..., Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802), Robert FitzRoy, Royal Institution, Samuel Wilberforce, Scopes Trial, Second voyage of HMS Beagle, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, The Athenaeum (British magazine), The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), The Historical Journal, The Morning Chronicle, The Times, Thomas Henry Huxley, Transmutation of species, Vanity Fair (UK magazine), Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Zoology. Expand index (18 more) »

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject.

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Adam Sedgwick

Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British priest and geologist, one of the founders of modern geology.

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Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton FRS HFRSE (11 June 18297 June 1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist.

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American Scientist

American Scientist (informally abbreviated AmSci) is an American bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Aristocracy

Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía, from ἄριστος aristos "excellent", and κράτος kratos "power") is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class.

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Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).

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Associated University Presses

Associated University Presses (AUP) is a publishing company based in the United States, formed and operated as a consortium of several American university presses.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Baden Powell (mathematician)

Baden Powell MA FRS FRGS (22 August 1796 – 11 June 1860) was an English mathematician and Church of England priest.

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Balfour Stewart

Balfour Stewart (1 November 182819 December 1887) was a Scottish physicist.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Bishop of Oxford

The Bishop of Oxford is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury; his seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Charles Daubeny

Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (11 February 179512 December 1867) was an English chemist, botanist and geologist.

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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Correspondence of Charles Darwin

The British naturalist Charles Darwin corresponded with numerous other luminaries of his age and members of his family.

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Creation–evolution controversy

The creation–evolution controversy (also termed the creation vs. evolution debate or the origins debate) involves an ongoing, recurring cultural, political, and theological dispute about the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life.

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Crispin Whittell

Crispin Whittell (born 19 December 1969 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British director and playwright.

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Darwin in Malibu

Darwin in Malibu is a play by British playwright and director, Crispin Whittell.

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David Brewster

Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE (11 December 178110 February 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator.

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Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review has been the title of four distinct intellectual and cultural magazines.

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Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Essays and Reviews

Essays and Reviews, edited by John William Parker, published in March 1860, is a broad-church volume of seven essays on Christianity.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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Francis Darwin

Sir Francis "Frank" Darwin,, FRSE LLD (16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925), was a son of the British naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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Great Hippocampus Question

The Great Hippocampus Question was a 19th-century scientific controversy about the anatomy of apes and human uniqueness.

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Henry Fawcett

Henry Fawcett (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a British academic, statesman and economist.

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Hippocampus (journal)

Hippocampus is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1991.

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History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

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John Hedley Brooke

John Hedley Brooke (born 20 May 1944) is a British Historian of Science specialising in the relationship between science and religion.

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John Stevens Henslow

John Stevens Henslow (6 February 1796 – 16 May 1861) was a British priest, botanist and geologist.

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John William Draper

John William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English-born American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.

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Liberal Christianity

Liberal Christianity, also known as liberal theology, covers diverse philosophically and biblically informed religious movements and ideas within Christianity from the late 18th century onward.

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List of presidents of the Royal Society

The President of the Royal Society (PRS) is the elected Head of the Royal Society of London who presides over meetings of the society's council.

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Liverpool Mercury

The Liverpool Mercury was an English newspaper that originated in Liverpool, England and circulated for over 200 years.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford University Museum of Natural History

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum or OUMNH, is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England.

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Quarterly Review

The Quarterly Review was a literary and political periodical founded in March 1809 by the well known London publishing house John Murray.

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Radicalism (historical)

The term "Radical" (from the Latin radix meaning root) during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement.

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Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)

Robert Chambers (10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th century scientific and political circles.

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Robert FitzRoy

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce FRS (7 September 1805 – 19 July 1873) was an English bishop in the Church of England, third son of William Wilberforce.

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Scopes Trial

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

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Second voyage of HMS Beagle

The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS ''Beagle'', under captain Robert FitzRoy who had taken over command of the ship on its first voyage after the previous captain committed suicide.

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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, (9 June 178321 October 1862) was an English physiologist and surgeon who pioneered research into bone and joint disease.

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The Athenaeum (British magazine)

The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London, England from 1828 to 1921.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Historical Journal

The Historical Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.

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The Morning Chronicle

The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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Transmutation of species

Transmutation of species and transformism are 19th-century evolutionary ideas for the altering of one species into another that preceded Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.

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Vanity Fair (UK magazine)

The second Vanity Fair was a British weekly magazine published from 1868 to 1914.

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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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Redirects here:

Huxley-Wilberforce debate, Wilberforce-Huxley debate.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Oxford_evolution_debate

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