El viaje del Beagle
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~220.000 palabras · 1048 pasajes
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- APACharles Darwin. (n.d.). Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visi [El viaje del Beagle]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/charles-darwin/journal-of-researches-into-the-natural-history-and-geology-of-the-countries-visi
- MLACharles Darwin. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visi [El viaje del Beagle]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/charles-darwin/journal-of-researches-into-the-natural-history-and-geology-of-the-countries-visi.
- ChicagoCharles Darwin. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visi [El viaje del Beagle]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/charles-darwin/journal-of-researches-into-the-natural-history-and-geology-of-the-countries-visi.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
El título original del diario del Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage.
Contexto e historia
Es la misma obra que en el catálogo aparece también como The Voyage of the Beagle, y conviene decirlo para que no parezca que Darwin escribió dos libros. Este es el nombre con que salió; el de Voyage se impuso más tarde. La primera edición es de 1839 y la segunda, de 1845, está reescrita en puntos importantes. Para citarlo hay que decir siempre qué edición se usa, porque no dicen lo mismo.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
is situated at the bottom of a valley, bounded by lofty and jagged walls of stratified lava. The black rocks afford a most striking contrast with the bright green vegetation, which follows the banks of a little stream of clear water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls, dressed in excellent taste; their black skins and snow-white linen being set off by coloured turbans and large shawls. As soon as we approached near, they suddenly all turned round, and covering the path with their shawls, sung with great energy a wild song, beating time with their hands upon their legs. We threw them some vintéms, which were received with screams of laughter, and we left them redoubling the noise of their song. One morning the view was singularly clear; the distant mountains being projected with the sharpest outline, on a heavy bank of dark blue clouds. Judging from the appearance, and from similar cases in England, I supposed that the air was saturated with moisture. The fact, however, turned out quite the contrary. The hygrometer gave a difference of 29.6 degrees, between the temperature of the air, and the point at which dew was precipitated. This difference was nearly double that which I had observed on the previous mornings. This unusual degree of atmospheric dryness was accompanied by continual flashes of lightning. Is it not an uncommon case, thus to find a remarkable degree of aerial transparency with such a state of weather? Generally the atmosphere is hazy; and this is caused by the falling of impalpably fine dust, which was found to have slightly injured the astronomical instruments. The morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the wind by the gauze of the vane at the masthead. Mr.…