Chapter Three: Patterns On The Shore Of The Universe
CHAPTER THREE: PATTERNS ON THE SHORE OF THE UNIVERSE
1. For the history and use of this image, see Clarence J. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).
2. A. F. Alexander, The Planet Uranus: A History of Observation, Theory and Discovery (London: Faber & Faber, 1965).
3. Tom Standage, The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting (New York: Walker, 2000).
4. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 6th ed. (London: John Murray, 1872), 444.
5. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1st ed. (London: John Murray, 1859), 171. For examples of such “difficulties,” see Abigail J. Lustig, “Darwin’s Difficulties,” in The Cambridge Companion to the “Origin of Species,” ed. Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 109–28.
6. For example, Darwin was unable to provide a convincing response to Fleeming Jenkin’s concerns about “blending inheritance”: see Michael Bulmer, “Did Jenkin’s Swamping Argument Invalidate Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection?” British Journal for the History of Science 37 (2004): 281–97.
7. For the role of faith in Darwin’s scientific and religious reflections, see Alister McGrath, “Religious and Scientific Faith: The Case of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species,” in The Passionate Intellect: Christian Theology and the Discipleship of the Mind (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010), 119–37.
8. William James, “The Sentiment of Rationality,” in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1897), 63–110.