Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were amateur scientists who never held a position in their field of study.

He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

* Charles Robert Darwin

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

In 1795, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, asked:

During Charles Darwin's studies on the Galápagos Islands, Darwin observed 13 species of finches that are closely related and differ most markedly in the shape of their beaks.

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Charles Darwin ( 1809-1882 )

It has been hypothesized that Charles Darwin might have suffered from Chagas disease as a result of a bite of the so-called great black bug of the Pampas ( vinchuca ) ( see Charles Darwin's illness ).

* Creation ( 2009 film ), a 2009 film by Jon Amiel about the life of Charles Darwin

Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.

Lyell's interpretation of geologic change as the steady accumulation of minute changes over enormously long spans of time was a powerful influence on the young Charles Darwin.

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* Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer

** Charles Darwin ( 1758 – 1778 ) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Charles Galton Darwin ( 1887 – 1962 ), physicist and activist

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

Later in the century, Charles Villiers Stanford ( 1852 – 1924 ) used symphonic techniques to produce a more concise and unified structure.

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

" Newspaper writers of the time used other nicknames for the club, including " Somersets " ( for owner Charles Somers ), " Plymouth Rocks ," " Beaneaters ," the " Collinsites " ( for manager Jimmy Collins )", and " Pilgrims.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Other properties on the estate include Birkhall, formerly home to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and used now by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for their summer holidays.

The accession of Charles I ( 1625 – 1649 ) brought about a complete change in the religious scene in that the new king used his supremacy over the established, state Church " to promote his own idiosyncratic style of sacramental Kingship " which was " a very weird aberration from the first hundred years of the early reformed Church of England ".

In 1987, Charles provided the poem track used for the opening credits of the BBC series The Marksman, which he also acted in, and the track is included on the album " The Marksman: Music from the BBC TV series ".

It has been believed that this was also why Peirce used " Santiago " (" St. James " in Spanish ) as a middle name, but he appeared in print as early as 1890 as Charles Santiago Peirce.

Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.

Nicole Oresme, a French cleric and friend of the dauphin ( later to become King Charles V ) of the 14th Century, used constructions similar to Cartesian coordinates well before the time of Descartes and Fermat.

Charles reads Carter's memories and discovers that when the two were children they were used as test subjects by Nathan Milbury of the Black Womb Project, with the approval of Charles ' father, Doctor Brian Xavier.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

Charles Weingartner, one of the founding members of the NCTE committee on Public Doublespeak mentioned: “ people do not know enough about the subject ( the reality ) to recognize that the language being used conceals, distorts, misleads ”.

It is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick ( 1851 – 1924 ), a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague.

The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

Left-wing revivalists like Charles Seeger and Lawrence Gellert interpreted folk music as a grass-roots cultural form that came from the people and was written for the people such that it could be used in ' people's ' struggles for social and political rights.

At this time a further design evolved, reintroducing oars to create the galley frigate such as the Charles Galley of 1676 which was rated as a 32-gun fifth rate but also had a bank of 40 oars set below the upper deck which could be used to propel the ship in the absence of a favourable wind.

Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.

Depending on whether total passengers, flights or cargo traffic are used as a measure, it ranks first, second or third in Europe alongside London Heathrow Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Charles Bray had become rich as a ribbon manufacturer and had used his wealth in building schools and other philanthropic causes.

Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 – 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.

Replacement of the hard-to-implement decimal system ( used in Charles Babbage's earlier design ) by the simpler binary system meant that Zuse's machines were easier to build and potentially more reliable, given the technologies available at that time.