"The Origin is one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of it should be a part of
the intellectual equipment of every educated person...The book will endure in future ages so long as a knowledge
of science persists in mankind. It remains to be said that the edition here reviewed is very worthily produced
and contains a little-known picture of Darwin."
--W. L. Sumner, Nature
"It was a very happy idea to publish a facsimile of the first edition of On the Origin of Species; the
price of copies of the original edition has reached the thousand dollar bracket, and in contemporary literature
all page-references are to the original pagination, which was not followed in previous reprints of the first edition.
Now, with this very reasonably priced and beautifully produced book, not only historians of science but also biologists
will have the opportunity of following the fascinating thought-trails, still far from fully explored, of that remarkable
man Darwin. Few if any persons are so well qualified as Harvard's Ernst Mayr to execute so helpfully and gracefully
the delicate task of writing a worthy foreword to such a classic."
--Sir Gavin de Beer, Science
"This is a most valuable publication. In addition to the text of the first edition (1859) of the Origin
with all the freshness and directness of the original, now here made available in facsimile, Professor Ernst Mayr
of Harvard, a most distinguished writer in this field, has prefaced this reprint with an introduction that is in
itself a classic."
--Times Literary Supplement
Submitted By Publisher, December, 2002
Summary
"The Origin is one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of it should be a part of
the intellectual equipment of every educated person...The book will endure in future ages so long as a knowledge
of science persists in mankind. It remains to be said that the edition here reviewed is very worthily produced
and contains a little-known picture of Darwin."
--W. L. Sumner, Nature
"It was a very happy idea to publish a facsimile of the first edition of On the Origin of Species; the
price of copies of the original edition has reached the thousand dollar bracket, and in contemporary literature
all page-references are to the original pagination, which was not followed in previous reprints of the first edition.
Now, with this very reasonably priced and beautifully produced book, not only historians of science but also biologists
will have the opportunity of following the fascinating thought-trails, still far from fully explored, of that remarkable
man Darwin. Few if any persons are so well qualified as Harvard's Ernst Mayr to execute so helpfully and gracefully
the delicate task of writing a worthy foreword to such a classic."
--Sir Gavin de Beer, Science
"This is a most valuable publication. In addition to the text of the first edition (1859) of the Origin
with all the freshness and directness of the original, now here made available in facsimile, Professor Ernst Mayr
of Harvard, a most distinguished writer in this field, has prefaced this reprint with an introduction that is in
itself a classic."
