• The Science & Technology
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• v.33 no.2 s.369
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• pp.27-27
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• 2000

"종의 기원"으로 진화론을 주장한 찰스 다윈은 비글호 항해를 하면서 숱한 일화를 남기며 생물을 관찰하고 생물표본과 화석을 모았다. 다윈이 처음 배를 탈 때는 항장과의 말 벗이 되기 위해서였으나 항장과 격렬한 논쟁으로 또 폭풍으로 몇차례의 위기를 넘겼으며 벤추카라는 빈대에 물려 풍토병에 걸리는 등 온갖 고생을 하면서도 그는 인류에게 귀중한 업적을 남긴 것이다.

• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.137
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• pp.19-19
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• 1993

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.488-501
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• 2000

'The Voyage of the Beagle' , one of the best record of scientific travels ever made, written by Charles Darwin (1809-82), the greatest naturalist ever born, is reviewed in the viewpoint of the Earth Sciences. Various observations and interpretations on the Earth Sciences are told in the Voyage. First of all, Darwin understood the geological time much more longer than accepted then as well as the geological phenomena and processes such as orogeny, uplifting, subsidence, erosion, and deposition. And he also provided a perfect interpretation on the formation of coral reefs and a good theory on the evolution of organisms. Reasonable paleoenvironmental reconstructions and interpretations based on the fossils were given in the Voyage. His observations on meteorological phenomena were from the dust composed of organisms collected on the 'Beagle' in the Atlantic Ocean, to the movement of air and extreme clear dry condition experienced on the crest of the Andes, and etc. He made several observations on the general oceanography such as the discoloration of the sea, the lights on the sea surface, conchoidal provinces noted on the Galapagos Archipelago, the trees and plants found in the remotely separated islands, and etc. However relatively scarce observation was carried out on astronomy probably due to his relatively much land travelling. Most of his interpretations and suggestions are accepted in this time.