From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 74
Summary:
Sends MS. Asks CD to recommend it to a scientific society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends MS. Asks CD to recommend it to a scientific society.
Thanks for money, which will enable him to complete publication. Explains principles of his physiological theory.
GR regarded as a dreamer in Bavaria. Laments local social and political conditions.
Describes his ideas of mechanics in nature.
Explains that law of inertia, and most of modern mechanics, is all wrong. Explains his concept of "elasticity" of bodies. Applies it to physiology.