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Navigating the natural world: Charles Darwin's pocket sextant.

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From: Geographical
Date: 20061001
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Born in 1809, Charles Robert Darwin fascinated by science from an early age, even creating a makeshift chemistry lab in the family's garden shed. But despite such early promise, he wasn't a particularly gifted scholar and his father, concerned by Darwin's apparent lack of direction, urged him to follow in his brother's footsteps and study to become a doctor.

Unsettled by the sight of blood, Darwin quit during his second year of study. Eager to explore the world and simultaneously avoid his father's new campaign to enroll him into the clergy, in 1831 Darwin accepted a role as ...

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