Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Grew Up In Revolutionary Times

1
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)Grew Up In
Revolutionary Times
2

• All Western civilization was breaking with
  classical, rigid thinking
• Interest in mythology (rather just dogma)
• Interest in the experience of common people
  (rather than just royalty)
• The new era of romanticism, was sweeping the
  West
• Interest in all things natural

3
In Literature

• Late 1700s
• William Blake Songs of Innocence
• Robert Burns To a Mouse
• Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne

4
In Literature

• Early 1800s (in England)
• Wordsworth Coleridge (lyrical ballads)
• Shelley Ode to the West Wind
• Keats Ode to a Nightingale

5
In Literature

• 1800s (in America)
• Washington Irving Rip van Winkle / Legend
  of Sleepy Hollow
• James Fenimore Cooper Last of the Mohicans
• Herman Melville Moby Dick

6
In Literature

• 1800s (in America)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson transcendentalism
  emphasized the power and the force of the
  individual, and the essential unity of nature.
• Henry David Thoreau civil disobedience
  following the laws of nature, not of man.

7
In Music

• http--w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de-cmp-beethoven_sym5_1.wav

8
In Art Romanticism

• Romanticism
• Looking at nature on its own terms
• Looking at ordinary people and involvement with
  everyday life
• Art involved social commentary

9
Ver Meer

• Vermeer
• Woman Pouring Milk ( 1660)
• - art could be light illuminating common
  people and things

10

• Vermeer
• Young Woman with a Water Jug
• (1664)

11

• Vermeer
• Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)

12
F. Goya The Third of May 1808 (1814)

• a revolutionary advance in the whole conception
  of the range and purpose of painting. For the
  first time war was depicted as futile and
  inglorious and for the first time there were no
  heroes only killers and the killed.
• http//www.imageone.com/goya/

13
Impressionism art was looking at light itself
14
In Science

• Mathematical analysis uncovers the laws of nature
  governing the physical sciences
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Chemistry

15
In Science

• But what of the natural sciences?
• Medicine
• Agriculture
• Natural Theology (aka Biology)