Fitzroy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast by John Gribbin

Fitzroy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast

John Gribbin

336 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science reflective slow-paced
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Admiral FitzRoy made his name as a captain on the HMS Beagle. It was for his second voyage on the ship (1832-36) that he decided to ask Charles Darwin to accompany him, and it was during this time that Darwin began to develop the ideas that would ...

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