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Sir George Howard Darwin, KCB FRS FRSE (9 July 1845 – 7 December 1912) [1] was an English barrister and astronomer, the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin .
Sir George Darwin was an English astronomer who championed the theory that the Moon was once part of the Earth, until it was pulled free to form a satellite. The second son of the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin, he became Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy at Cambridge.
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Jul 9, 2011 · George Darwin was an English mathematician who was a son of Charles Darwin and studied the three-body-problem.
After more than a century of technological change and discovery, how accurate were Darwin’s writings in describing how life on Earth evolved? Here we examine a few of Darwin’s spot-on assertions and grossest errors. (Read T. H. Huxley’s 1875 Britannica essay on evolution & biology.)
- John P. Rafferty
Sir George Howard Darwin, was an English barrister and astronomer, the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.
Sir George Howard Darwin, 1845–1912, English astronomer and mathematician; 2d son of Charles Darwin. He was Plumian professor (from 1883) of astronomy and experimental philosophy at Cambridge, and a recognized authority on cosmogony. He wrote Scientific Papers (5 vol., 1907–16).
The scientific work of Darwin possesses two characteristics which cannot fail to strike the reader who glances over the titles of the eighty odd papers which are gathered together in the four volumes which contain most of his publications.
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