| Week |
Date |
Subject - Deadlines |
| 0 |
September 26 |
- Introduction to the members of the class, collection of contact information, introduction to the class.
- Introduction to the 19th Century
- Darwin, Huxley, Hooker and Wallace as unlikely conspirators--not exactly collaborators
- Start reading Ian McCalman Darwin's Armada, the Darwin section.
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| 1 |
October 2-4 |
- What is Science?
- The 19th Century
- Darwin, Hooker, Huxley and Wallace
- Popper and Kuhm
- Oreskes and the testing of models
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| 2 |
Oct 9-11 |
- Group 1, Darwin
- The Darwins as a family
- Darwin and his early years
- Education and his professors
- Cambridge connection
- Voyaging
- Fitzroy and Darwin
- South America
- The islands and Australia
- Homecoming
- A change of heart
- Assignment of paper topics--start sending them as soon as you can.
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| 3 |
Oct 16-18 |
- Group 2, Huxley
- Background-Family and Religion
- Education, any mentors?
- Ship's Surgeon and the Rattlesnake
- Falling into hell and love in Australia and New Guinea.
- Moody, do ya think?
- Relationship to Owen Stanely (Captain of the Rattlesnake)
- Contrast to Darwin
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| 4 |
Oct 23-25 |
- Group 3 Hooker and the Ross Expedition
- Family background
- How about his Dad, in his father's footsteps.
- Scientific background
- How did he get his posting--connections in Victorian England
- The Southern Ocean and exploration.
- Why plants?
- Trip to Hobart, Tasmania. Hobart is pretty special, more like Bellingham or Olympia than Seattle.
- Perhaps the most dangerous of the three voyages.
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| 5 |
Oct 31-Nov 1 |
- First (short) papers due
- Group 4 Wallace
- Family background, improverised as a young man.
- Formal education stopped at 13.
- Collecting in the British Isles before setting sail
- Read Mathus' Principal of Populations before leaving to collect across the world
- What is the book Vestiges and why was it important (may have to do some looking or this one)
- Trials in the Amazon
- Discovery of the Wallace Line (Huxley gave it that name)
- Always on the outside.
- Wallace as the catylst
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| 6 |
Nov 6-8 |
- The Armada at WAR.
- Darwin and the Revolutionaries Sympoisum 2012-Agenda to be developed from the students paper topics. See the listing from 2008 on the Blackboard Documents section.
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| 7 |
Nov 13-15 |
- Darwin and the Revolutionaries Sympoisum 2012
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| 8 |
Nov 20-22 |
- Darwin and the Revolutionaries Sympoisum 2012. Celebration of Origin November 24, 1859.
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| 9 |
Nov 27-29 |
- Darwin and the Revolutionaries Sympoisum 2012
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| 10 |
Dec 4-6 |
- Darwin and the Revolutionaries Sympoisum 2012-Final Papers
- Summary and final discussion
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