The discovery of a vocation: Darwin's early geology
The discovery of a vocation: Darwin's early geology
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职业的发现：达尔文的早期地质学
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10.1017/s0007087400027059
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1991
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J. Secord
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J. Secord
1832年1月，英国皇家海军比格尔号首次登陆时，22岁的查尔斯·达尔文开始详细记录地质学。他很快就计划写一本关于所到之处地质结构的书，他给姐妹篇们的信证实他自称是一名“地质学家”。对于一个像他这样的阶级和收入的年轻绅士来说，这是一件了不起的事情。达尔文转向选择进化论的观点已经被如此深入地研究过，以至于人们很容易忘记，他所做过的最非凡的决定就是成为一名地质学家，把自己的一生都奉献给自然界的研究。他决定将自己的工作与查尔斯·莱尔（Charles Lyell）颇具争议的地质学改革计划结合起来，这一计划在英国几乎没有追随者，这一点也不那么令人惊讶。
When HMS Beagle made its first landfall in January 1832, the twenty-two-year-old Charles Darwin set about taking detailed notes on geology. He was soon planning a volume on the geological structure of the places visited, and letters to his sisters confirm that he identified himself as a ‘geologist’. For a young gentleman of his class and income, this was a remarkable thing to do. Darwin's conversion to evolution by selection has been examined so intensively that it is easy to forget that the most extraordinary decision he ever made was to devote his life to the study of the natural world by becoming a geologist. It is only slightly less astonishing that he should have decided to align his work with Charles Lyell's controversial programme of geological reform, which had almost no followers in England.