Darwin Manuscript Project

达尔文手稿项目

• 批准号: 0646695
• 负责人: David Kohn
• 金额: $ 30.69万
• 依托单位: American Museum Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0646695&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Darwin; Manuscript; Project

IntroductionThe objective of this project is to perform archival research leading to online textual editions of two important segments of the manuscript material left by Charles Darwin. The first segment, the 'Origins of the Origin', forms a part of Darwin's Scientific Notes and comprises those notebooks, notes and drafts used by Darwin in developing and writing the Origin of Species. The second segment, Darwin's Abstracts, forms a part of Darwin's Marginalia and Reading Notes and comprises the complete collection of Darwin's reading notes abstracted from the literature of natural history. These materials each add a coherent and original piece to our understanding of Darwin's work as a scientist and to his integration with the scientific community. The manuscripts will form part of the Darwin Manuscript Project and will be published online at the Darwin Digital Library of Evolution, a website sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History.Intellectual MeritThe intellectual merit of the 'Origins of the Origin' manuscripts is that they constitute the full record of the growth of Darwin's theory of descent by natural selection up to its first publication in 1859. Voluminous and conceptually significant sections of that record have hitherto remained unpublished, while some published sections have been inadequately edited. The intellectual merit of 'Darwin's Abstracts' is that they constitute and reveal Darwin's most systematic mode of engagement as a reader of the scientific literature, an engagement that spanned his entire post-Beagle career and covered the full range of topics that he mined for their relevance to the theory of evolution.Broader ImpactsAs a de novo online project, perhaps the broadest impact of publishing these materials is that a treasure trove of rich and generally unexplored Darwin materials will be made accessible to an enormously widened audience of potential interpreters, which includes scholars, teachers, and students. The general public has little appreciation of the diverse ways in which scientists work to develop original knowledge. These materials show Darwin hard at work extracting information, conducting experiments, refining and restructuring the expression of his ideas and always working as part of a community of knowledge. The impact of publishing these materials to high editorial standards and yet in this public, image-rich way is that they provide a means to deepen the public grasp of scientific practice.

这个项目的目的是进行档案研究，从而为查尔斯·达尔文留下的两个重要手稿材料的在线文本版本。第一部分“起源的起源”是达尔文科学笔记的一部分，包括达尔文在发展和撰写《物种起源》时使用的笔记本、笔记和草稿。第二部分《达尔文的摘要》是《达尔文的旁注和阅读笔记》的一部分，是达尔文从自然史文献中摘录的阅读笔记的完整集合。这些材料为我们理解达尔文作为科学家的工作以及他与科学界的融合增添了连贯和原创的部分。这些手稿将成为达尔文手稿项目的一部分，并将在由美国自然历史博物馆赞助的网站达尔文进化数字图书馆上在线发布。智力价值《起源的起源》手稿的智力价值在于，它们完整地记录了达尔文的自然选择血统理论在1859年首次出版之前的发展过程。这一记录的大量和概念上重要的章节至今仍未出版，而一些已出版的章节编辑不足。《达尔文文摘》的智力价值在于，它们构成并揭示了达尔文作为科学文献读者的最系统的参与模式，这种参与贯穿了他离开贝格尔号后的整个职业生涯，涵盖了他为与进化论相关而挖掘的所有主题。更广泛的影响作为一个全新的在线项目，也许出版这些材料最广泛的影响是，丰富的、通常未被探索的达尔文材料的宝库将向包括学者、教师和学生在内的潜在口译者的广大受众开放。一般公众对科学家开发原创性知识的各种工作方式知之甚少。这些材料表明达尔文努力地提取信息，进行实验，改进和重组他的思想表达，并始终作为知识共同体的一部分工作。以高编辑标准出版这些材料的影响是，它们提供了一种加深公众对科学实践掌握的手段。