FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin s Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
John Gribbin, Mary GribbinFitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin s Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
January 1, 2003Yale University Press336 pages
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A richly textured biography of Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle on which Charles Darwin was a passenger, explores his accomplishments and motivations, including his tenure as governor of New Zealand, his contribution to Darwin's ideas of evolution, and his innovations in the field of meteorological science.
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