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Fitzroy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
Fitzroy The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
Author: John R. Gribbin
Admiral FitzRoy made his name as a captain on the HMS Beagle. It was for his second voyage on the ship (1832-36) that he decided to ask Charles Darwin to accompany him, and it was during this time that Darwin began to develop the ideas that would lead him to his theory of evolution by natural selection. But there was so much more to FitzRoy than...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780755311811
ISBN-10: 0755311817
Pages: 336
Edition: illustrated edition
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