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On a Project like this, it's very easy to go bonkers get hung up on the science, the donations (HINT!). Thanks to historian Kris Tetens and his weblog Victorian Peeper for a bit of refocussing.
Darwin, FitzRoy and the Beagle didn't exist in a vacuum: Britain was in a state of ferment, the industrial revolution was - literally - going full steam, we were grabbing the Empire, science was being torn from the grasp of Anglican clergy and established as an independent profession and there was a whiff of revolution in the air even while the dark, satanic mills worked. Soldiers marched past Darwin's front door in London, on the was to deal with uppity Manchester Chartist protesters who wanted unreasonable things like the right to vote. The USA was growing in size and confidence, South America was, as Darwin relates, in The Voyage of the Beagle, in post-colonial turmoil: they once sailed into a near coup d'etat.
Living, inspiring history: another reason that a replica Beagle should be built.
Darwin, FitzRoy and the Beagle didn't exist in a vacuum: Britain was in a state of ferment, the industrial revolution was - literally - going full steam, we were grabbing the Empire, science was being torn from the grasp of Anglican clergy and established as an independent profession and there was a whiff of revolution in the air even while the dark, satanic mills worked. Soldiers marched past Darwin's front door in London, on the was to deal with uppity Manchester Chartist protesters who wanted unreasonable things like the right to vote. The USA was growing in size and confidence, South America was, as Darwin relates, in The Voyage of the Beagle, in post-colonial turmoil: they once sailed into a near coup d'etat.
Living, inspiring history: another reason that a replica Beagle should be built.
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