Fig. 1
From: Darwin’s Philosophical Imperative and the Furor Theologicus
Original, hand-written front page of Charles Darwin's manuscript that was published in November 1859 under the title On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. According to the publisher John Murray III, this new title was more appealing, since such a long manuscript was neither an “abstract” nor an “essay,” and potential readers could not imagine what the author means by “natural selection”