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Westminster Abbey

دير لندن الذي دُفن فيه داروين في 26 أبريل 1882 في الممشى الشمالي قرب هيرشل ونيوتن.

Westminster AbbeyWestminster Abbey, London

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) was an English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. Born in Shrewsbury, he studied medicine at Edinburgh and graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, before joining HMS Beagle in 1831 as a self-financed gentleman companion to Captain Robert FitzRoy. Five years of surveying and collecting — South America, the Galápagos, the Pacific — made him famous as a geologist and collector; privately, from July 1837, he filled notebooks with 'transmutation' of species, finding his mechanism after reading Malthus in September 1838. Married to his cousin Emma Wedgwood from 1839, he settled at Down House in Kent in 1842, published his Beagle journal and worked for eight years on barnacles, then began the 'big book' on Natural Selection. The shock of Alfred Russel Wallace's 1858 essay forced a joint announcement at the Linnean Society, followed in November 1859 by On the Origin of Species — 1,250 copies, sold out on the day, and an argument that split Victorian opinion. The Descent of Man (1871), plant books, and a final study of earthworms followed. He died at Down on 19 April 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, near Newton. Fellow of the Royal Society (1839), Royal Medal (1853) and Copley Medal (1864).

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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 [4 January 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire — 20 March 1727, London; aged 84) was an English physicist and mathematician and the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution. Admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1661, he spent the plague years 1665–67 at Woolsthorpe, where he established the fundamentals of the calculus, separated white light by refraction and — as he later told William Stukeley — began thinking about gravity when he saw an apple fall. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672 after his reflecting telescope caused a sensation, he quarrelled with Robert Hooke over light and (in a 1676 letter) wrote that if he had seen further it was by “standing on the sholders of Giants”. Prompted by Edmond Halley in 1684, he sent the tract De Motu, which in two and a half years grew into Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in July 1687 entirely at Halley’s expense; its three laws of motion and law of universal gravitation made it, in Britannica’s words, one of the most important works in the history of modern science. Warden of the Mint from 1696 and Master from Christmas Day 1699, President of the Royal Society from 1703 and knighted in 1705, he died unmarried at Kensington on 20 March 1727 and lies in Westminster Abbey, where Rysbrack’s monument shows him among instruments, coins and books. His alchemical and theological manuscripts — over which he waged a bitter priority dispute with Leibniz — became public largely after World War II, and his scientific papers are now a UNESCO Memory of the World collection.

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