title: On Darwin's science and its contexts.
abstract: The notions of 'the Darwinian revolution' and of 'the scientific Revolution' are no longer unproblematic; so this paper does not construe its task as relating these two items to each other. There can be big-picture and long-run history even when that task is declined. Such history has to be done pluralistically. Relating Darwin's science to Newton's science is one kind of historiographical challenge; relating Darwin's science to seventeenth-century finance capitalism is another kind. Relating Darwin's science to long-run traditions and transitions is a different kind of task from relating his science to the immediate short-run contexts.
authors.affiliation: University of Leeds, History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Electronic address: m.j.s.hodge@leeds.ac.uk.
authors.forename: M J S
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hodge
mesh_terms: D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*