Edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin

《查尔斯·达尔文书信集》第一次将查尔斯·达尔文所写和所收的所有现存的、已知的信件，按照现代的文本原则和实践进行了编辑，提供了完整的、权威的文本。 达尔文的书信，因为它是如此丰富的信息，他的生活和工作，是一个主要来源，了解知识革命，他是中心人物。 从达尔文的出版物中可以看出，他是一个伟大的提问者、观察者、实验者和综合者，他的信件中有大量的细节说明了这些能力。 他们还揭示了他如何去他的工作，什么没有出现在他的出版物，他的怀疑和焦虑，他的错误的开始和失望。 与他的研究有关的信件揭示了达尔文与其他科学家和信息提供者的非凡关系--这些关系在19世纪的主要科学家中构成了一个非凡的知识网络--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。 《通信》拥有广泛的读者群，包括科学史学家、生物学家、地质学家、哲学家、19世纪的学者和普通读者，这些读者将现在分散在分散的资料库中的资料汇集在一起。

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.