Darwin Manuscript Project

这个项目的目标是对查尔斯·达尔文留下的手稿材料中的两个重要部分进行档案研究，以获得在线文本版本。第一部分，《起源的起源》，是达尔文《科学笔记》的一部分，包括达尔文在编写和撰写《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，构成了达尔文《马尔吉尼亚》和阅读笔记的一部分，并包括了达尔文从自然历史文学中抽象出来的阅读笔记的完整集合。这些材料都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一份连贯而原创的内容。这些手稿将成为达尔文手稿计划的一部分，并将在美国自然历史博物馆赞助的达尔文进化数字图书馆网站上在线发表。智力价值《起源的起源》手稿的学术价值在于，它们完整地记录了达尔文通过自然选择进化的理论在1859年首次出版之前的发展过程。该记录中篇幅较长、概念上有重要意义的部分迄今仍未发表，而一些已发表的部分编辑不足。《达尔文的摘要》的学术价值在于，它们构成并揭示了达尔文作为科学文献读者最系统的参与模式，这种参与跨越了他后比格的整个职业生涯，并涵盖了他挖掘的与进化论相关的所有主题。广泛的影响作为一个新的在线项目，出版这些材料可能最广泛的影响是，一个丰富的、通常未被探索的达尔文材料的宝库将被极大地扩大到潜在的口译受众，包括学者、教师和学生。普通公众对科学家开发原创知识的不同方式知之甚少。这些材料显示，达尔文努力工作，提取信息，进行实验，提炼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在于，它们提供了一种加深公众对科学实践的把握的手段。

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 Voluminous and conceptually significant sections of that record have hitherto remained unpublished, while some published sections have been inadequately edited.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.