On Naval Timber and Arboriculture
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1831
- Pages
- 227
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On Naval Timber and Arboriculture is an 1831 treatise by Patrick Matthew (1790-1874), the Scottish landowner and fruit-grower, ostensibly about growing timber for shipbuilding. Buried in its appendix is a clear statement of natural selection, written nearly three decades before Darwin's Origin of Species, a priority Darwin himself later acknowledged. The book is remembered today not for its forestry but for that startling anticipation of evolutionary theory. It remains a curiosity prized by historians of science.
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Book facts
- Author
- Patrick Matthew
- First published
- 1831
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction Books
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- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online