- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; Facsimile edition (1 July 1975)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674637526
- ISBN-13: 978-0674637528
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 3.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 565,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Origin is one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of it should be a part of the intellectual equipment of every educated person...The book will endure in future ages so long as a knowledge of science persists in mankind. It remains to be said that the edition here reviewed is very worthily produced and contains a little-known picture of Darwin. -- W. L. Sumner Nature This is a most valuable publication. In addition to the text of the first edition (1859) of the Origin with all the freshness and directness of the original, now here made available in facsimile, Professor Ernst Mayr of Harvard, a most distinguished writer in this field, has prefaced this reprint with an introduction that is in itself a classic. Times Literary Supplement It was a very happy idea to publish a facsimile of the first edition of On the Origin of Species; the price of copies of the original edition has reached the thousand dollar bracket, and in contemporary literature all page-references are to the original pagination, which was not followed in previous reprints of the first edition. Now, with this very reasonably priced and beautifully produced book, not only historians of science but also biologists will have the opportunity of following the fascinating thought-trails, still far from fully explored, of that remarkable man Darwin. Few if any persons are so well qualified as Harvard's Ernst Mayr to execute so helpfully and gracefully the delicate task of writing a worthy foreword to such a classic. -- Sir Gavin de Beer Science
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With an Introduction by Ernst Mayer
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Although I have not finished reading this fascinating book, I am finding it most interesting. Written in 1859 and unedited, this book does bring a deep insight into Charles Darwin's mind and the very scientific way that he went about his research. I deliberately chose this facsimile edition so that I could read Charles Darwin's own words, as opposed to a modern editor's. In these days of modern communication and the ability to share ideas globally and instantly, we may tend to forget how relatively isolated scientists in the mid 19th century were; their efforts are all the more creditable for this. I am also pleased to have been able to buy this book in hardback, as it makes it far more enjoyable to read and to keep.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It is clear that a previous reviewer values his investement in material goods more than his investment in wisdom (the shame of it! A barcode on a 21st century facsimile! Who'd have thought?) It does not matter how Darwin's thought is presented. It is the thought itself that is important, not the commercial packaging. I cannot afford a "special, hardback facsimile", but I do own a cheap paperback of "Origin of Species". And I value the words in my cheap paperback more than a previous reviewer values the words in his "disappointing" hardback version. Maybe Darwin was wrong. Some of us will not evolve.
16 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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I was extremely disappointed with what had been described as a 'facsimile copy' of Darwin's original work. It had a nasty, shiny, red cover which incorporated a printed and very intrusive bar-code on the back. Bar-codes in 1859? The text may have been a facsimile but the copy certainly wasn't. I returned it immediately.
The one good thing that came out of it, however, was Amazon UK's reputation. I was able to print off a postage label on my computer and return the item immediately. I even received e-mail confirmation that it had been returned within 24 hours of me posting it.
The one good thing that came out of it, however, was Amazon UK's reputation. I was able to print off a postage label on my computer and return the item immediately. I even received e-mail confirmation that it had been returned within 24 hours of me posting it.
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