"A Victorian Battle: Holmes v. Darwin" Topic
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Tango01 | 22 Jan 2018 11:48 a.m. PST |
"The Victorian society placed a strong value on professional and well-rounded scientists that were capable of making very rapid deductions to solve mysteries and to study and advance new medical breakthroughs. The Victorian age was filled with new discoveries and new notions and philosophies that changed England, Europe, and moreover, the world including: Darwin's highly debated Theory of Evolution, Fleming's discovery of Penicillin, the worldwide Industrial Revolution, and the invention of cars, telephones, and photography. These, among others, are just a fraction of occurrences during the Victorian era that will have forever changed the world. Holmes, in many ways, is also much like a scientist. He too uses forensic approaches in solving his various mysteries, in addition to using scientific tools, such as a convex lens. Holmes disentangles myths with his rather swift and hyper-logical intuitions, like many other scientists of the time, Darwin included…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Cerdic | 22 Jan 2018 12:20 p.m. PST |
Except that Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. Twenty-seven years after Victoria died…. |
Frederick | 22 Jan 2018 3:09 p.m. PST |
Agree as to Pencillin – and the first antibiotic to be widely used was actually sulfanilamide, in 1935 |
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 22 Jan 2018 4:32 p.m. PST |
…And it looks like somebody's term paper. |
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