Books&Audiobooks

https://darwin-online.org.uk/ Charles Darwin's vast personal library, which he used to create his world-changing scientific works, was gradually dispersed after his death in 1882. Many of the scientific works were preserved and catalogued but many other items went different ways. Some were lost and details of the majority of the contents were never published- until now. Thus, for many years scholars have referred to Darwin's library as containing 1,480 books because that is how many were known to survive in the two main collections, the University of Cambridge and Down House. We can now reveal that this was only 15% of the printed items in Darwin's Library during his lifetime. This is the first reconstruction of Darwin's complete library. The result of work on the Darwin Online project over 18 years, the list here details 7,494 titles across 13,000 volumes/items. And, for the first time since Darwin's death, his library has been virtually re-assembled, allowing anyone to discover the works Darwin owned, used and cited. The result is an indispensible tool for scholars, scientists, students and the history of Victorian science. Darwin's library is revealed as one of the most extensive and important private scientific libraries of the 19th century.