James A. Secord

James (Jim) Andrew Secord (born 18 March 1953) is an American-born historian of science. He was a professor (now retired) of history and philosophy of science within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Christ's College. He was also the director (from 2006 until completed in 2023) of the project to publish the complete Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Secord is especially well known for ''Victorian Sensation'', his award-winning study of the reception of the anonymous ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'', a pioneering evolutionary book first published in 1844. In 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Provided by Wikipedia