Making Darwin

Biography and the Changing Representations of Charles Darwin

Bibliographic Data

ID3239644
AuthorsJenny Browne (0000-0003-3594-8021, Charles Darwin University, corresponding author), Janet Browne (Janet Browne is Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of a biography of Charles Darwin in two volumes—Voyaging (New York, 1995); The Power of Place (New York, 2002).)
Year2010
Volume40
Issue3
Pages347-373
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.347
OpenAlexW2076272440
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited36

Biographies of scientists are generating fresh interest as current movements in the historiography of science increasingly focus on the social aspects of science and on the criteria that most accurately describe a scientific life. Biography is the form through which the work of a scientist can be located in its fullest historical context. It can also reveal much about the construction of reputation and about the reception of ideas. The biographical tradition surrounding the naturalist Charles Darwin from 1882 to the present day has employed a variegated imagery, exemplifying how writings about scientific figures have adjusted to changing cultural and scientific norms

Archaeology · Art history · Biography · Charles darwin · Context (archaeology) · Darwin (ADL) · Darwinism · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Historiography · History of science · Naturalism · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · Biographical and Historical Analysis · Computer Science · History · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography