The Monk in the Garden (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robin Marantz Henig
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography, history of science, natural history, and science
- Time of Work: 1822-1989
- Setting: Eastern Europe
- Principal Characters: Gregor Johann Mendel, Hugo Marie de Vries, William Bateson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Science or scientists, Genetics, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Natural history
- Locales: Europe
In 1854 Gregor Mendel began the pea-plant experiments that would originate a new biological science in the twentieth century. In 2000, with the mapping of the human genome (the genetic instructions for making a human being), his work seemed destined to grow in importance in the twenty-first century. Ironically, Mendel’s accomplishments, whose significance became obvious to twentieth century scientists, were largely neglected in the nineteenth century, and this neglect and rediscovery have raised questions that biographers and historians of science have been wrestling with ever since:...
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