Your rays embrace the lands to the limits of all that you have made Hymn of Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt (1,000 BC) . . . Well, almost to the limits. In the second half of the eighteenth century, before the declaration of evolution, the Reverend Gilbert White wrote many letters to Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington, acquaintances who shared his interest in the natural history of Britain. White lived in the Hampshire village of Selborne, and used the wildlife of his parish to encourage the zoological curiosity of his fellows. In 1788, more than a hundred of his letters were gathered into a single volume. The Natural History of Selborne became the fourth most published book in the English language. White, Pennant and Barrington described the wildlife of Selborne, and some of the nature encountered during their expeditions around Europe, as they saw it. They painted a vivid picture, one in existence only under daylight. But did they acknowledge life at night? And did Darwin observe the fields and woodland surrounding Down House as the sun went down?
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