Thomas Henry Huxley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Huxley |
| SIGNATURE | HUXLEY T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant-Surgeon R. N. (late of H. M. S. "Rattlesnake") |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1851 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Collected Essays: Volume 2, Darwiniana
The Origin of Species [1860]
Collected Essays
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays: With Helps to the Study of Berkeley
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays: Volume 5, Science and the Christian Tradition
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays: Volume 4, Science and the Hebrew Tradition
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) became known as 'Darwin's bulldog' because of his forceful and energetic support for Darwin's theory, especially at the notorious British Association meeting in Oxford in 1860. In fact, Huxley had some reservations about aspects of the theory, especially the element of gradual, continuous progress, but in public he was unwavering in his allegiance, saying in a letter to Darwin 'As for your doctrines I am prepared to …
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
In 1863, the biologist and educator Thomas Henry Huxley published Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, a compilation of his public lectures on Darwin's theory of evolution — specifically the controversial idea of the ape ancestry of humans. An energetic supporter of Darwin, Huxley's argues that in order to understand the universe, everyone must know their place in the natural world. The book is divided into three parts, each written with the aim…
T. H. Huxley on Education
Note on the selections Note on references Introductory essay: Huxley as Educator 1. The Natural History Sciences (1854) 2. A Lobster or, the Study of Zoology (1861) 3. Emancipation - Black and White (1865) 4. Improving Natural Knowledge (1866) 5. A Liberal education and Where to Find it (1868) 6. Scientific Education 7. The School Boards (1870) 8. Administrative Nihilism (1871) 9. The Hypothesis that Animals are Automata (1874) 10. Universities: …
Evolution and ethics: And other essays
account of the serious fatigue and hoarseness which pubhc speaking has for some years caused me ; while I knew that it wouki be my fate to follow the most accomplished and facile orator of our time, whose indomitable youth is in no matter more manifest than in his penetrating and musi- cal voice
Collected essays
Anp when I consider, in one view, the many.things...... which I have upon my hands, I feel the burlesque of being employed in this manner at my time of life.But, in another view, and taking in all circumstances, these things, as trifling as they may appear, no less than things of greater importance, seem to be put upon me to do,..... -Bishop Butler to the Duchess of Somerset.THE "many things" to which the Duchess's correspondent here refers are t…
A half-century of science
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Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews
Tag Sermous, (Essatrs
Evidence as to man's place in nature
On the natural history of the man-like apes -- On the relations of man to the lower animals -- On some fossil remains of man
On the Ethnology of Britain
On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind
"On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind" by the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley is an essay about the features of the various human races, especially in terms of anthropology and skull features, and about their distribution in the world
Evidence as to man's place in nature
XXIV. Observations upon the anatomy and physiology of salpa and pyrosoma
1. The Salpæ, those strange gelatinous animals, through masses of which the voyager in the great ocean sometimes sails day after day, have been the subject of great controversy since the time of the publication of the celebrated work of Chamisso, ‘De Animalibus quibusdam è classe Vermium Linnæana.’ In this work were set forth, for the first time, the singular phenomena presented by the reproductive processes of these animals,—phenomena so strange…
Collected essays
Anp when I consider, in one view, the many.things...... which I have upon my hands, I feel the burlesque of being employed in this manner at my time of life.But, in another view, and taking in all circumstances, these things, as trifling as they may appear, no less than things of greater importance, seem to be put upon me to do,..... -Bishop Butler to the Duchess of Somerset.THE "many things" to which the Duchess's correspondent here refers are t…
On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind
"On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind" by the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley is an essay about the features of the various human races, especially in terms of anthropology and skull features, and about their distribution in the world
Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews
Tag Sermous, (Essatrs
XXIV. Observations upon the anatomy and physiology of salpa and pyrosoma
1. The Salpæ, those strange gelatinous animals, through masses of which the voyager in the great ocean sometimes sails day after day, have been the subject of great controversy since the time of the publication of the celebrated work of Chamisso, ‘De Animalibus quibusdam è classe Vermium Linnæana.’ In this work were set forth, for the first time, the singular phenomena presented by the reproductive processes of these animals,—phenomena so strange…
Evidence as to man's place in nature
Evidence as to man's place in nature
On the natural history of the man-like apes -- On the relations of man to the lower animals -- On some fossil remains of man
On the Ethnology of Britain
On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind
"On the Geographical Distribution of the Chief Modifications of Mankind" by the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley is an essay about the features of the various human races, especially in terms of anthropology and skull features, and about their distribution in the world
Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews
Tag Sermous, (Essatrs
A half-century of science
oti fin sio or Th Shi Til wt
Collected essays
Anp when I consider, in one view, the many.things...... which I have upon my hands, I feel the burlesque of being employed in this manner at my time of life.But, in another view, and taking in all circumstances, these things, as trifling as they may appear, no less than things of greater importance, seem to be put upon me to do,..... -Bishop Butler to the Duchess of Somerset.THE "many things" to which the Duchess's correspondent here refers are t…
Evolution and ethics: And other essays
account of the serious fatigue and hoarseness which pubhc speaking has for some years caused me ; while I knew that it wouki be my fate to follow the most accomplished and facile orator of our time, whose indomitable youth is in no matter more manifest than in his penetrating and musi- cal voice
T. H. Huxley on Education
Note on the selections Note on references Introductory essay: Huxley as Educator 1. The Natural History Sciences (1854) 2. A Lobster or, the Study of Zoology (1861) 3. Emancipation - Black and White (1865) 4. Improving Natural Knowledge (1866) 5. A Liberal education and Where to Find it (1868) 6. Scientific Education 7. The School Boards (1870) 8. Administrative Nihilism (1871) 9. The Hypothesis that Animals are Automata (1874) 10. Universities: …
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) became known as 'Darwin's bulldog' because of his forceful and energetic support for Darwin's theory, especially at the notorious British Association meeting in Oxford in 1860. In fact, Huxley had some reservations about aspects of the theory, especially the element of gradual, continuous progress, but in public he was unwavering in his allegiance, saying in a letter to Darwin 'As for your doctrines I am prepared to …
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
In 1863, the biologist and educator Thomas Henry Huxley published Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, a compilation of his public lectures on Darwin's theory of evolution — specifically the controversial idea of the ape ancestry of humans. An energetic supporter of Darwin, Huxley's argues that in order to understand the universe, everyone must know their place in the natural world. The book is divided into three parts, each written with the aim…
The Origin of Species [1860]
Collected Essays
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays: With Helps to the Study of Berkeley
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays: Volume 5, Science and the Christian Tradition
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays: Volume 4, Science and the Hebrew Tradition
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays
Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Aust…
Collected Essays: Volume 2, Darwiniana
Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings
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