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Description edit
In THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Gregor Mendel: Add a description of this character.
- William Bateson
- Charles Darwin
- Weldon
- Correns
- Unger
- Galton
- Hugo De Vries
- Johann
- Beatrice
- Nage Li
- Kolreuter
- Wallace
- Pearson
- Naudin
- Baumgartner
- Huxley
- Grantchester
- Hurst
- Klacel
- Buffon
- Tschermak
- Theresia
- Adam
- Fitzroy
- Anton
- Merkmal
- Sophy
- Franz
- Miescher
Setting & Locations edit
- Vienna
- London
- Cambridge
- Moravia
- St. Thomas
- Brtinn
- Hieracium
- England
- Brunn
- Europe
- South America
- Drosophila
- Brno
- Heizendorf
- Austria
- Stud Book
First Sentence edit
THE BLUE LOCOMOTIVE of the Great Eastern Railway streaked through the Cambridgeshire countryside.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: Spring 1900
Act One
1. In the Glasshouse
2. Southern Exposure
3. Between Science and God
4. Breakdown in Vienna
5. Back to the Garden
6. Crossings
7. First Harvest
8. Eve's Homunculus
9. The Flowering of Darwinism
10. Garden Reflections
11. Full Moon in February
Interlude
12. The Silence
13. "My Time Will Come"
Act Two
14. Synchronicity
15. Mendel Redux
16. The Monk's Bulldog
17. A Death in Oxford
18. Inventing Mendelism
19. A Statue in Mendelplatz
Epilogue: Another Spring
Acknowledgments
Notes and Selected Readings
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robin Marantz Henig (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0395977657
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0395977657
Page Count: 224
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2000: Biography/Autobiography)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 576
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