Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

by Nicolaas A. Rupke

Book Overview

Richard Owen (1804-92) was, after Darwin, the leading naturalist of nineteenth-century Britain. A distinguished anatomist and paleontologist, he was influential in Victorian scientific reform and in the debate over natural selection. Leader of the nineteenth-century museum movement, he founded London's monumental Natural History Museum, wrote and published copiously, and won every professional honor. This first full-fledged biography of Owen presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300058209
• ISBN13: 9780300058208
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"