Stauffer (1975)
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OoE
resumo do bigo book, com muito mais exemplos e citações apropriadas. Interrompido
por Wallace. Os primeiros caps foram Variation 1868. Natural selection é como
darwin chamou o livro em carta para AG
·
Simbolos
editoriais
o
FC Refers to folios of fair copies of parts of
the manuscript, where Darwin occasionally made changes from his earlier
holographs
o
(
) Darwin's parentheses
o
<
> Darwin's cancellations
o
[ ] Editor's additions to Darwin's text or notes
o
[?]
Uncertain reading
o
/ Normal end of manuscript folio, note slip,
etc.
o
// End of existing piece of manuscript where
Darwin sheared off a portion to be transferred for use elsewhere
o
….
Unrestorable gap in text
o
s Seite, Darwin's usage for page citations in
German sources
·
Stauffer
tentou recuperar as fontes. Origem de fato um texto único por não conter fontes
e notas de rodapé
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Começo
do livro
o
The more immediate background of what Darwin
came to call 'my big book'3 starts before the middle of the 1850s. In 1853
Darwin's first major scientific honour came to him in the Royal Society's award
of the Royal Medal in recognition of his books on the Geology of the Voyage of
the Beagle and his comprehensive taxonomy of the barnacles.4 The latter work,
which confirmed his position as a professionally qualified biologist,5 was then
near enough to completion so that he could mention to Hooker his expectation to
be at work on his 'species book' in a year or two.6 The next year he was ready
to pack up his barnacle specimens, arrange for distributing copies of his
publication; and, with the decks thus clear, he recorded in his Pocket Diary,
for September 9, 1854: 'Began sorting notes for Species theory.' In March of
1855 he wrote to his second cousin and close college friend, William Darwin
Fox, that 'I am hard at work at my notes collecting and comparing them, in
order in some two or three years to write a book with all the facts and
arguments, which I can collect, for and versus the immutability of species.' 5
·
Darwin
mantinha “pastas” com refs e recortava os cadernos de notas para escrever os
capítulos.
·
Hooker
confidente em cartas de 1855-6. Erasmus, Lamarck e Chambers eram obstáculos a
serem superados. Lyell e outros sugeriram uma publicação prévia em 1856, mas
Darwin não quis publicar nada sem suporte o suficiente.
·
Continuou
escrevendo e revisando os capítulos do livro. Até a chegada da carta de 1858 de
Wallace. Levou a escrita da origem (Murray não quis chamar de abstract, ebora
darwin achasse o único modo de explicar a falta de referências)
o
Yet in view of the great amount of writing on
Natural Selection actually completed and the more than 1,800 pages which Darwin
published just in the decade after 1858, the assertion that without the
pressure arising from Wallace's 1858 letter Darwin would never have finished
his Species Book seems unpersuasive. 10 [isso aqui se relaciona com o mind the gap de van Wyhe e com o myth
de ruse(?)]
TABLE. Comparing Natural Selection and Origin of Species p.
11 |
|
Chapter MSS. |
Chapter 1859 |
I - Variation under Domestication |
I - Variation under Domestication |
II - Variation under Domestication (cont.) |
|
III - On possibility of all organisms crossing: on
susceptibility to change |
Partly in IV |
IV - Variation in Nature |
II – Variation under Nature |
V - Struggle for Existence
|
III Struggle for existence |
VI - Natural Selection |
IV Natural Selection |
VII - Laws of Variation |
V Laws of variation |
VIII - Difficulties in
Transitions |
VI Difficulties on theory |
IX - Hybridism &
Mongrelism |
VIII Hybridism |
X – Instinct |
VII Instinct |
Section on Geographical
Distribution |
XI Geographical distribution |
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Big
book pós publicação
o
As we have seen,
even the Natural Selection manuscript had been for Darwin a condensed form of
the presentation he preferred for his material, and he recorded in his Pocket
Diary that in January 1860, he 'Began looking over MS for work on Variation.'
As he wrote to Asa Gray, this was to be 'the first part forming a separate
volume, with index etc. of the three volumes which will make my bigger work'.2 By June he
recorded the completion of the second chapter of the work eventually published
in 1868 as The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and
he continued to record his writing progress in his Pocket Diary until 1867 when
in March he received the first proof. Thus instead of completing the Natural
Selection manuscript he expanded the scale of his treatment, so that the
two volumes on Variation represent the first two chapters of Natural
Selection. He also published material from other parts of Natural
Selection in Variation. There are now folios missing from the
surviving Natural Selection manuscript and other folios with part of the text
cut away. These gaps can often be related to topics which were treated in both
works3 and
it seems evident that he simply incorporated passages from the older manuscript
into the new one by transferring what he had already written to save himself
recopying.1 A further such transfer and incorporation of materials on variation
from the first two chapters of Natural Selection would easily account
for the fact that of those initial chapters only one folio (here published in
the appendix) has been preserved with the remainder of the manuscript.2 It also could
account for the fact that some few of the pages selected and cut out of the
transmutation notebooks seem to be lost permanently. Unfortunately aside from
the preliminary draft on Pangenesis practically none of the manuscript of Variation
under Domestication seems to have survived. Apparently the rest of the two
initial chapters of Natural Selection were thus used up and discarded.3
o
This prospectus
of the 'second work' fits the present manuscript, except that the latter does
not include a discussion of missing fossil links. Instead it includes a section
on the effects of the ice age as the only completed part of Darwin's fuller
discussion of geographical distribution.
o
This section is
the only portion of the manuscript which
seems to fit best with Darwin's prospectus for the concluding part of
his full-scale Species Book: 'In a third work I shall try the principle of
natural selection by seeing how far it will give a fair explanation of.
..several large and independent classes of facts; such as the geological
succession of organic beings, their distribution in past and present times, and
their mutual affinities and homologies.'1
11-3
·
Darwin
interrompeu a produção do segundo volume da triologia para escrever o descente
of man para o qual o manuscrito também foi canibalizado (também para outros
trabalhos botânicos). Ele também emprestava o manuscrito que era publicado em
partes por outros.
TABLE. Stages of Darwin's Organized Writing on
the Origin of Species |
|||
Version |
Short
title |
Dates of
Writing (from Pocket Diary) |
Estimated
Length |
I |
1842 Sketch |
May, June,
1842 |
15000 words |
II |
1844 Essay |
Finished July
5, 1844 |
52k |
III |
Natural
Selection |
July
1856-June 1858 |
225k extant |
IV |
Origin of
Species |
July
1858-March 1859 |
155k (c. 80k
in parts corresponding to present text of Natural Selection) |
V |
Variation
Under |
(6th ed.,
June-Oct. 1871) March. 1860- |
315k |
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Notas
muito longas foram incorporadas ao texto. Onde o texto está cortado, foram
usados trechos de outras obras quando possível. Variantes que não dão em nada
foram cortadas. Letra horrível, as vezes difícil de interpretar. Stauffer fez
várias escolhas editoriais com relação a pontuação, capitalização, contrações e
gramática.
·
A
tabela de conteúdos de Darwin mostra o que seriam os primeiros capítulos que
viraram o Variation. Com exceção do folio 40, eles foram perdidos.
·
A
tabela de conteúdos também foi bem revisada e conta um pouco a história dos
capítulos.
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