Two Essays: One Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other on DewA Constable and Company, 1818 - 439 pages Contains possibly the first statement of the theory of natural selection; as well as the theory of dew and a classic work in meteorology and in environmental and industrial medicine and vision. |
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