Long 19th c. · 1825–1895
Who influenced Thomas Henry Huxley?
Influences
Darwin's bulldog and agnostic who made science a public moral authority.
Thomas Henry Huxley was influenced by Charles Darwin. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Thomas Henry Huxley?
Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist who specialised in comparative anatomy, earned the nickname "Darwin's Bulldog" for defending the theory of evolution. His 1860 Oxford debate with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce helped evolution win wider acceptance, though historians doubt parts of the story as it is usually told.
Largely self-taught, he became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of his time and, comparing Archaeopteryx with Compsognathus, correctly concluded that birds descend from small carnivorous dinosaurs. He coined the word agnosticism in 1869, did much to build science education in Britain, and his lecture "Evolution and Ethics" became influential in China.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Thomas Henry Huxley?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
Contemporaries of Thomas Henry Huxley
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Thomas Henry Huxley, with no direct line between them.
- Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1828–1889
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881
- Nikolai Fyodorov 1829–1903
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
- Herbert Spencer 1820–1903
- Karl Marx 1818–1883
- Wilhelm Wundt 1832–1920
Thomas Henry Huxley by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 73 — #24 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Thomas Henry Huxley
- Who influenced Thomas Henry Huxley?
- Charles Darwin.
- Who did Thomas Henry Huxley influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Thomas Henry Huxley.
- When did Thomas Henry Huxley live?
- 1825–1895. The map files Thomas Henry Huxley under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Thomas Henry Huxley card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Thomas Henry Huxley in 73 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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