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Perhaps no American scholar did more to advance Darwinian evolutionary theory in the United States than the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. He played a significant role in the U.S. publication of On the Origin of Species’ and reviewed the book for many major American journals (including The Atlantic).Behind the scenes, Gray’s correspondence was of critical importance to Darwin as he put pen to ...
3 de ene. de 2023 · A river of beneficial variations: Asa Gray’s theistic evolution. This paper presents the american botanist Asa Gray’s «theistic evolution», founded on the idea of the compatibility between natural selection and natural theology, as it emerges from his writings on the darwinian themes and from his correspondence with Darwin.
Asa Gray was born on November 18, 1810, in Sauquoit Valley, in the township of Paris, Oneida county, N. Y. His ancestors were of Scotch-Irish descent who had emigrated to Sauquoit from Mas-sachusetts and Vermont. He was the oldest of the eight children of Moses Wiley Gray and his wife, Roxana Howard Gray. In 1810
In the nineteenth century, people like J. Willard Gibbs carried on in that mold. Our scientists had to be lone pine intellectuals. And there was Asa Gray: Gray was born in upstate New York in 1810. He gained a patchy education -- a year here, a lecture there. He became an M.D. at 21, largely through apprenticeship.
10 de nov. de 2018 · Asa Gray was born on November 18, 1810 (died in 1888), in Oneida County, New York. With seven younger siblings, Gray grew up working on the family’s farm and becoming an avid naturalist, especially interested in minerals. His interest in botany began while at school, causing his father to enroll him in a local medical school.
1 de oct. de 1988 · Asa Gray was one of the major American scientific figures of mid-19th century America. Born, raised, and educated in upstate New York, Gray trained as a physician but his interest in natural history led him to botany, becoming the protege of the then preeminent American botanist John Torrey. By dint of his considerable intellectual abilities ...
6 de nov. de 2011 · The eminent nineteenth-century botanist Asa Gray (1810–1888) is chiefly remembered today for his role as an early supporter of the Origin of Species, his illuminating correspondence with Charles Darwin about design, and his attempt to construct a post-Darwinian natural theology (Moore 1979; Livingstone 1984; Beatty 2006, 2008).A highly accomplished scientist in his own right, Gray was the ...
