Le Voyage du Beagle
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
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- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
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- ~220 000 mots · 1 048 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APACharles Darwin. (n.d.). Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visi [Le Voyage du Beagle]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/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 [Le Voyage du Beagle]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/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 [Le Voyage du Beagle]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/charles-darwin/journal-of-researches-into-the-natural-history-and-geology-of-the-countries-visi.
Référence de l'édition que reproduit SigPhi : SigPhi en est la reproduction numérique, pas l'éditeur. L'année de l'édition ne figure pas dans les métadonnées (d'où « n.d. ») et le traducteur n'apparaît que lorsqu'il est connu.
De quoi il s'agit
Le titre original du journal du Beagle : Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage.
Contexte et histoire
C'est le même ouvrage qui figure aussi au catalogue sous le titre The Voyage of the Beagle, et il vaut la peine de le dire pour qu'on ne croie pas que Darwin a écrit deux livres. C'est sous ce nom qu'il a paru ; celui de Voyage s'est imposé plus tard. La première édition est de 1839, la seconde, de 1845, réécrite en des points importants. Toute citation doit préciser l'édition employée, car les deux ne disent pas la même chose.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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.…