RembrandtvanRijn-Ascholarinhisstudy1634-2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date September 25, 2025 CategoriesArtsEvolution Tagged , __featured1, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Ben Jonson, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Marlowe, Cicero, David Berman, Doctor Faustus, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, H. J. Shephard, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, Peter Bement, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, The Alchemist, Tom Wolfe Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea Neil Thomas September 25, 2025 Arts, Evolution 19 Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›
