Darwin's world-wide web - Audio

By The Open UniversityEducation

Darwin's world-wide web - Audio episodes

November 04, 2009 Darwin's world-wide web
A brief introduction to this album.
2 min
November 04, 2009 Transcript -- Darwin's world-wide web
A brief introduction to this album.
0 min
November 04, 2009 The Darwin Correspondence Project
An initiative set up at Cambridge University over thirty years ago. Since then, it has vastly expanded, hoping to draw in a wide range of audiences, both young and old.
7 min
November 04, 2009 Transcript -- The Darwin Correspondence Project
An initiative set up at Cambridge University over thirty years ago. Since then, it has vastly expanded, hoping to draw in a wide range of audiences, both young and old.
0 min
November 04, 2009 Darwin the collaborator
The letters show that Darwin was a very generous correspondent, and in particular how positive he was to women scientists.
8 min
November 04, 2009 Transcript -- Darwin the collaborator
The letters show that Darwin was a very generous correspondent, and in particular how positive he was to women scientists.
0 min
November 04, 2009 Darwin the mentor and family man
Darwin was very open minded and supportive, both of students whom he didn't know and of his own children.
4 min
November 04, 2009 Transcript -- Darwin the mentor and family man
Darwin was very open minded and supportive, both of students whom he didn't know and of his own children.
0 min

About Darwin's world-wide web - Audio

From the publisher's feed

How did Darwin gather data for his work? What do his surviving letters reveal about him, both as a man and as a scientist? He often seems like a solitary figure, but was this really the case? This album looks at the Darwin Correspondence project, an enormous endeavour that has been running for over thirty years. Today the project web site contains over five thousand letters, and there are plans to more than double that number. Shelley Innes, a historian of science and Alison Pearn, the assistant director of the Darwin Correspondence project, talk about the letters and how in particular they offer great insights into Darwin the man and Darwin the collaborator.