Charles Darwin Online

eldavojohn writes "The entire works of Charles Darwin have been made available online. It includes scanned works that were owned by his family — many of which were signed by the author. The University of Cambridge hopes to have this completed by 2009 and is only estimated to be about half way done. If you have any love for books whatsoever, I suggest you take a look at how they present the user with each book. Take the very first edition of On the Origin of Species, for example, where they use frames to display the text on the left with the original image on the right. From the Reuters article: 'Other items in the free collection of 50,000 pages and 40,000 images are the first editions of the Journal of Researchers, written in 1839, The Descent of Man, The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, which includes his observations during his five-year trip to the Amazon, Patagonia and the Pacific, and the first five editions of the Origin of Species.'"

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The biggest surprise?

[bunions]

The little-known fact that he signed his name as "Chuck D."

Flame on!

[JeanPaulBob]

The entire works of Charles Darwin have been made available online.

Oooh, good, I've been looking for some new fiction to read.

(Let the flamewar commence.)

Re:Flame on!

[Scrameustache]

maybe somebody will actually *read* the theory before attacking it

Boulderdash, you know as well as I do that those who attack it don't think for themselves, they just flame with what they were told to say when they were in that big room with the guy up front telling them what to think.
Reading it would be a waste of time, they have a much more efficient system: One person does the thinking, and distributes it to a group.

Think smart, not hard, dummy!

Re:frames

[Doctor-Optimal]

That web site is the best argument against intelligent design I've ever seen...

Counters lol

[bugnuts]

from tfa: This document has been accessed 87820 times since 09 October 2006

Gentle website, prepare to evolve or perish.

my favorite book is magazine

[User 956]

If you have any love for books whatsoever, I suggest you take a look at how they present the user with each book.

I love books so much the pages usually end up stuck together.

Wait, those are magazines. Nevermind.

Dust bowl connectivity issues

[BeeBeard]

I can't seem to access the site, and I live in Kansas. Maybe it's just a technical problem. Please, could somebody pray to Our Lord and have Him fix my innerweb, in His mercy?

Open Darwin?

[nekokoneko]

So is this what they call Open Darwin? *DUCKS*

Generic creationism troll

[91degrees]

Blah blah blah, religion.

Please respond with generic evolution flame.

thankyou.

Re:Generic creationism troll

[ettlz]

Blah, blah, blah, evolution.

Blah, blah, blah, Richard Dawkins.

Blah, blah, blah, Burgess Shale.

Blah, blah, blah, Steven Jay Gould.

You're welcome.

Hey, here's something

[cy_a253]

Ah! You scientists and your fancy "research" and "proof" and "peer-review" are all obvious wasting your time with this "theory of Evolution".

Behold!

Proof of the existence of God by the Banana Argument.

(and here's the entire episode if this sort of TV evangelism tickles your fancy)

Re:Flame on!-Water deployed!

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

I'm not convinced about authorship. Has an expert actually authenticated this work?

Re:If giving credit, give credit accurately

[Xybot]

can you please repeat with the "make sense" filter switched on.