...other a memoir of scientific exploration by Alexander von Humboldt. Darwin declares that these books "stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most...contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science" ( 1958, p. 68). Bowlby cites the appropriate passage, analyzes Herschel's theory, and integrates it...

...Autobiography Darwin says that von Humboldt's Personal Narrative and Herschel's Preliminary Discourse, "stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most...contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science" (de Beer 1983, 38). That Darwin reread Herschel closely after the voyage is indicated by his "Reading...

...Herschel's Preliminary Discourse with Humboldt's Personal Narrative by saying that reading them "stirred in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science."145 Herschel's book shared with Humboldt's a worldwide perspective, or, as Herschel put it,...

...Herschel's Preliminary Discourse to his colleague. 120 (Darwin later claimed that reading Herschel's book "stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most...contribution to the noble structure of natural science.") 121 Whewell continued to take an interest in Darwin's scientific and professional advancement after...

...autobiography (1876a) Darwin wrote that Herschel's book, along with Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels, "stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most...contribution to the noble structure of natural science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two" (68). 4 Herschel's book was...

...Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830), which Darwin later described as having stirred in him 'a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science'. 4 Herschel's account of 'the mind of man' held that 'his views enlarge, and his desires and wants increase,...

...'Personal Narrative.' This work, and Sir J. Herschel's 'Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy,' stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most...contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt...

...Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy, made a specially deep impression and aroused in him "a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science." Henslowe encouraged Darwin to study geology, and procured for him on leaving Cambridge in 1831 an invitation...