Edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin

查尔斯·达尔文的书信第一次提供了根据现代文本原则和实践编辑的完整的、权威的文本，其中包括查尔斯·达尔文所写和收到的所有现存的已知信件。达尔文的书信，因为其中包含了关于他的生活和工作的丰富信息，是理解他是核心人物的知识革命的主要来源。众所周知，达尔文是一位伟大的提问者、观察者、实验者和合成者，他的信件详细地说明了这些能力。它们还揭示了他是如何从事他的工作的，以及他的出版物中没有出现的东西，他的疑虑和焦虑，他的错误开始和失望。与他的研究有关的信件揭示了达尔文与其他科学家和线人之间关系的非同寻常的程度--这些关系构成了19世纪顶尖科学家之间一个非凡的智力网络--总的来说，它们提供了惊人的证据，证明达尔文是多么严重地依赖通信来完成他的研究。书信有广泛的受众，包括科学史学家、生物学家、地质学家、哲学家、十九世纪的学者和普通读者，对他们来说，这些材料汇集了现在广泛分散在分散的储存库中的材料。

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin is making available, for the first time, full, authoritative texts, edited according to modern textual principles and practices, of all the extant, known letters written and received by Charles Darwin. Darwin's correspondence, because it is so rich in information about his life and work, is a prime source for understanding the intellectual revolution in which he was the central figure. As is well known from his publications, Darwin was a great questioner, observer, experimenter, and synthesizer, and his letters illustrate these capacities in abundant detail. They also reveal how he went about his work and, what does not appear in his publications, his doubts and anxieties, his false starts and disappointments. The letters concerned with his research reveal the extraordinary extent of Darwin's relationships with other scientists and informants--relationships that constitute a remarkable intellectual network among the leading scientists of the nineteenth century--and in the aggregate they give striking evidence of the how heavily Darwin relied upon correspondence to complete his research. The Correspondence has a wide audience, including historians of science, biologists, geologists, philosophers, scholars of the nineteenth century, and general readers, for whom are brought together materials now widely dispersed among scattered repositories.