Isaac Newton, father of the theory of universal gravitation. The other British science star. The two men never met because Newton died before Charlie was born. They both rest in Westminster Cathedral. In any case, for a long time Darwin was worth more than Newton: Darwin was on the ten-pound bills and Newton on those of one-pound...
When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it; and I believe that I was considered by all my masters and by my Father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family ".
Charles Darwin, The autobiography.
After years of searching , months of reading archives, days spent interviewing witnesses from that period and hours devoted to drinking draught beers , PiTer, Michnik and James finally deliver the one and only totally-improbable-and-utterly-uncertain definitive biography of the childhood of the man who revolutionised our vision of nature.
Here is Little Darwin…
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