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5 giorni fa · Christ’s College wins da Vinci Decathlon challenge. Navigating challenges in mathematics, cartography, English, science, code breaking, art and poetry, ideation, engineering, creative producers, and legacy, Christ’s College has won the Year 9 section of the highly competitive da Vinci Decathlon.
5 giorni fa · He transferred to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1828, where his mentors mostly endorsed the idea of providential design. A botany professor suggested he join a voyage on the HMS Beagle —a trip that would provide him with much of his evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selection .
- Adrian J. Desmond
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined...
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
1 giorno fa · He played a considerable part in drawing up the Christ's College statutes, though these were less original than Mullinger believed since their most interesting sections, establishing the office of college lecturer and ordering the study of the poets and orators of antiquity, were derived from the Godshouse statutes, and ultimately from the days of William Bingham, the founder of Godshouse ...
4 giorni fa · The tone of social life long retained many traces of the 18th century. The fascinating series of Christ's College wine books lets in a shaft of light on a college combination room in the early part of the period. The fellows were fined for breaking glasses and for being late for hall. They now and then presented bottles of port for a celebration.
4 giorni fa · She was the first female Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. Her career, outlook and ideas have been critically shaped however by moving between different continents and countries. From 1982 to 1998, she was attached to Yale University, ultimately becoming a University Professor in History there.
3 giorni fa · It also seems to have had a reputation for rowdiness; the Grace Book records a fight on two successive nights with its neighbours at Christ's College, and there are plenty of other examples of inter-hostel brawls recorded. Borden Hostel was owned partly by Peterhouse, partly by Clare.
4 giorni fa · A graduate of the Sorbonne Nouvelle (LèsL) and of the University of Cambridge (PhD), and a former Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College Cambridge, Marion joined French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1997. She has held Visiting Professorships in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of ...
