Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
Stills of a Turbulent Life
Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
ISBN: 978-90-04-18300-1
Verlag: Brill
Eugène Dubois, the man who found the “missing link” between apes and humans, intended to write a book about his finds in Indonesia. He never finished it. In this current volume the outlines of Dubois’ book are reconstructed. Recently discovered correspondence with his intended publisher shed new light on the troublesome character of Dubois and his inability to communicate with the scientific establishment.
This volume also discloses the vast amount of photographic material that is part of the Dubois Collection at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands. As Pat Shipman summarizes it in her preface: “[...] what this book offers, it is more: more images, more letters, more details, more insight into the workings of a brilliant but unquestionably difficult man of science. We shall not see Dubois' like again so it is doubly fortunate that Albers and de Vos have uncovered so much about his life.”
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface Pat Shipman
Note from the authors
Introduction
Dubois and his Pithecanthropus
Siwalik
The discussion about Pithecanthropus
Personal stuff
The letter
Family
The book part I: The Indonesian collection
Understatements
Contents
Species
Pithecanthropus and its comparative material
Character
Martin
The death of De Stoppelaar
Distractions
Photography
Fool’s errands
Tegelen
Saving the Netherlands from thirst
Kallilimne
The book part II: The Peltenburg era
Selenka
Finale
Epilogue
The Dubois collection in the Netherlands
Appendix I: The Brill correspondence
Appendix II: Glass negatives and positives
Appendix III: Selection of photographs
Acknowledgements
