Robert Chambers publishes “The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,” which touches, in a discursive and accessible manner, on several theories popular at the time, including the progressive evolution of species and stellar evolution. Chambers’s publication initially found fertile ground in Victorian England and was used as a reference text by numerous radicals, but later met with harsh criticism from several scientists of the time due to its amateurish writing. The evolution of species would later be brought to scientific fruition by Charles Darwin.
