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'''James Richard Moore''', historian of science at the [[Open University]] and the [[University of Cambridge]] and visiting scholar at [[Harvard University]], is noted as the author of several biographies of [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name=EditorialReview2008>{{citation |date=2008 |author=Editorial Review |title=Darwin's Sacred Cause (book review) |journal=[[Publishers Weekly]] |volume=255 |issue=48 |page=38 |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=V9cGkBj_8iYC&dq=%22james+richard+moore%22&source=bl&ots=5Z2hzPTNPH&sig=1bYCimDAVHXDnMGEFlKNIop51pw&hl=en&ei=P21TTOvmBYeevQPeubEZ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA|accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with [[Adrian Desmond]] the major biography ''Darwin'', and also writing ''The Darwin Legend,'' ''The Post Darwin Controversies,'' and many articles and reviews.
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'''James Moore''' is a historian of science at the [[Open University]] and the [[University of Cambridge]] and visiting scholar at [[Harvard University]], is noted as the author of several biographies of [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name=EditorialReview2008>{{citation |date=2008 |author=Editorial Review |title=Darwin's Sacred Cause (book review) |journal=[[Publishers Weekly]] |volume=255 |issue=48 |page=38 |isbn=978-0547055268 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9cGkBj_8iYC&q=%22james+richard+moore%22|access-date=31 July 2010}}</ref> As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with [[Adrian Desmond]] the major biography ''Darwin'', and also writing ''The Darwin Legend,'' ''The Post-Darwinian Controversies,'' and many articles and reviews.


==Publications==
==Publications==

*{{citation|year=1991|author1=Adrian Desmond|author2=James Moore|title=Darwin|publisher=Michael Joseph, Penguin Books}}
*James Moore. (1979). ''The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900'', Cambridge University Press
*{{citation |year=2007 |author=Adrian Desmond, James Moore & [[Janet Browne]] |title=Charles Darwin |place=Oxford and New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-921354-2 |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUlWS8Gcj_0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=janet+browne&hl=en&ei=kFNTTOiwHILqvQP7sfUY&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=30 July 2010}}
*{{citation|year=1991|author1=Adrian Desmond|author2=James Moore|title=[[Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist|Darwin]]|publisher=Michael Joseph, Penguin Books}}
*{{citation |year=2007 |author=Adrian Desmond, James Moore & [[Janet Browne]] |title=Charles Darwin |place=Oxford and New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-921354-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUlWS8Gcj_0C&q=janet+browne |access-date=30 July 2010}}
*{{citation|year=2009|title=Darwin's Sacred Cause|author1=Adrian Desmond|author2=James Moore|publisher=Allen Lane, Penguin}}
*{{citation|year=2009|title=Darwin's Sacred Cause|author1=Adrian Desmond|author2=James Moore|publisher=Allen Lane, Penguin}}


==Notes==
==Notes==
{{Reflist}}
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==References==
==References==
* Adrian Desmond and James Moore, ''Darwin'', London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013192-2
* Adrian Desmond and James Moore, ''Darwin'', London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, {{ISBN|0-14-013192-2}}
* ''The Darwin Legend'', Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64243-2
* ''The Darwin Legend'', Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, {{ISBN|0-340-64243-2}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/index.shtml SOF: Evolution and Wonder - Understanding Charles Darwin (Speaking of Faith from American Public Media)] Links to mp3 and transcript, as well as links to supporting material, including radio interview with James Moore.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061002124015/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/index.shtml SOF: Evolution and Wonder - Understanding Charles Darwin (Speaking of Faith from American Public Media)] Links to mp3 and transcript, as well as links to supporting material, including radio interview with James Moore.
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020300822_pf.html Eden and Evolution], interview with James Moore and others.
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020300822_pf.html Eden and Evolution], interview with James Moore and others.
*{{cite web|url=http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/moore-devilschaplain.pdf|title=Darwin – A `Devil’s Chaplain’?|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080227014518/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/moore-devilschaplain.pdf|archivedate=Feb 27, 2008}} (pdf)
*{{cite web|url=http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/moore-devilschaplain.pdf|title=Darwin – A 'Devil's Chaplain'?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227014518/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/moore-devilschaplain.pdf|archive-date=February 27, 2008}} (pdf)
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/darwin/inourtime.shtml Moore and Darwin] on ''[[In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)|In Our Time]]''
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/darwin/inourtime.shtml Moore and Darwin] on ''[[In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)|In Our Time]]''


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Latest revision as of 18:16, 26 February 2021

James Moore

James Moore is a historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin.[1] As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with Adrian Desmond the major biography Darwin, and also writing The Darwin Legend, The Post-Darwinian Controversies, and many articles and reviews.

Publications[edit]

  • James Moore. (1979). The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900, Cambridge University Press
  • Adrian Desmond; James Moore (1991), Darwin, Michael Joseph, Penguin Books
  • Adrian Desmond, James Moore & Janet Browne (2007), Charles Darwin, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-921354-2, retrieved 30 July 2010
  • Adrian Desmond; James Moore (2009), Darwin's Sacred Cause, Allen Lane, Penguin

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Editorial Review (2008), "Darwin's Sacred Cause (book review)", Publishers Weekly, 255 (48): 38, ISBN 978-0547055268, retrieved 31 July 2010

References[edit]

  • Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013192-2
  • The Darwin Legend, Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64243-2

External links[edit]