Posted on 03/22/2009 8:46:13 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Charles Darwin spent more money on expensive shoes than books while studying at Cambridge University, newly-discovered records show.
Historians at Cambridge unearthed a series of six financial record books which reveal intriguing insights into the naturalist's day-to-day college life.
They show that Darwin, who studied at Christ's College between 1828 and 1831, lived the life of a 19th century gentleman and paid people to carry out tasks such as stoking his fire and polishing his shoes.
He also paid extra to buy vegetables to supplement his college meals, the records show.
Darwin's college bills amounted to £636.0.91/2 over three years - not including £14 he paid for his BA degree in 1831 and £12 he spent collecting an MA in 1836.
The books also contain accounts for the barber, chimney-sweep, apothecary [pharmacist], porter, brazier [who looked after the fires], glazier, hatter, laundress, linen-draper and painter, among others.
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's landmark work On the Origin of Species.
A spokesman for the university said: "Together, they fill many gaps in our knowledge of Darwin's student days.
"The time he spent at Cambridge from 1828 to 1831 was one of the most significant periods of his life, but also one for which there is a comparative shortage of information.
"Thanks to the discovery, historians now have the exact date of Darwin's arrival at the university - January 26th, 1828 - as well as a huge assortment of details which will enable them to reconstruct his undergraduate life as never before."
The spokesman said Darwin said his years in Cambridge were "the most joyful of my happy life" lived the life of a "a well-to-do young gentleman".
He added: "His rooms at Christ's, recently restored and opened to the public, appear
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Time to look at BO’s university records, state senate records, u.s. senate records, all records, including his birth certificate.
Can we get some info to fill in the gaps Obama's 'students days'
Didn't mean to try and hijack the thread.
A spokesman for the university said: "Together, they fill many gaps in our knowledge of Darwin's student days.
Missing links, eh? I guess the equilibrium of his studying was punctuated by bursts of partying or intense study?
Darwin was a loser. Name one thing that his theories have brought to help advance mankind...
I can think of several that have hindered us along the way.
1. He was a racist and his theories were racist.
2 At best, he doubted God’s story of the creation of man.
3 He elevated mutation and death to shape and form the universe.
Good catch. He was at it during the 19th century, not the 18th, so it must have been a typo here.
The math of doctrinaire evolutionism is similar to the math of the million-man-march-ism: fuzzy and as flexible as the agit-prop requires.
Universities have libraries. Today, with a little luck and a lot of copy paper, you can save hundreds of dollars a year on textbooks. Can't borrow shoes, though.
What are they going to do..slap a retroactive 90 percent tax on his estate? /sarc
Time has sped up since then. That 'ol relativity thing kicking in...
Comfortable shoes and a warm place to take a poop...
Well, this is the 21st century, right? 200 years at least since the 19th century.
When I was just a young 'un, they told me
Now, [the infamous] they tell me that the earth is 4.6 Billion years old.
In less than a century, I've aged something more than a billion yrs.
Called my mom the other day. Told her the above. Then, "Mom. Hate to break it to you...but you are old, old, old."
She laughed at me. Told me it was old news...
Reminds of the farmer who responded to a query whether he knew about the dinosaurs by saying, “Yawp, they been dead for sixty five million and one years.” “Why do you say sixty five million and one?” asked his interlocutor. Said the farmer, “Wa’ll, it was just last year that a feller was tellin’ me that they had died sixty five million years ago.”
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Thanks rabscuttle385.Charles Darwin spent more money on expensive shoes than books while studying at Cambridge University, newly-discovered records show.Well, the Demwits *already have* deceased *voters*... |
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All medical and biological advancements of the modern age also owe a debt to the understanding of biological systems that Darwin's theory provided.
An understanding of antibiotic resistance, and the means to use antibiotics in such a way as to not evolve resistant strains also owes a debt to Darwin.
Also Darwin was not personally a racist, nor is anything about his theory racist. Before a biological understanding of the differences between races, most people supposed a supernatural cause for dark skin and their theology supported this (Mark of Cain, Children of Ham, different Adams, Mormonism).
A scientific understanding of race and dark or light skin is that it is an adaptation to mitigate vitamin D synthesis from sunlight and the mutagenic and harmful effects of sunlight. In other words, people in Africa are not inherently inferior or marked by a vengeful God; they are adapted to living in Africa.
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