Life in Nature, first published in 1862, is a series of papers by
the nineteenth-century English surgeon and popular science writer
James Hinton. About a third of the material, though revised and
reworked for this book, had appeared previously under the title
'Physiological Riddles' in the Cornhill Magazine, in which Hinton
explained biological phenomena for non-scientific readers. Hinton
wrote this thirteen-chapter book to present a concise overview of
the human body, informed by the latest scientific insights, that
would be more easily intelligible for the general population than
the scientific physiological data of his day. His intention was
also to demonstrate the similarity between patterns occurring in
the organic world and in the rest of nature. This book will be of
value to historians of Victorian culture and science as an example
of how authors and publishers responded to the growing middle-class
interest in scientific discoveries.
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