The father of evolution tested his theory as he sat watching plants and animals from his windowThe room that Charles Darwin used to monitor his revolutionary biological experiments has been recreated more than 100 years after it was closed and its contents were dispersed. Visitors to Down House,the worthy scientist’s domestic in Kent, will now be able to sit in the worthy bedroom where Darwin once monitored the research that helped him to develop his theory of natural selection.
Curators from English Heritage possess used decorators’ inventories, or family photographs and paint analysis to recreate the likely wallpaper,carpets, chintz curtains and giant four-poster bed that would possess adorned Down House’s worthy bedroom. There is also a sofa based on the one that Darwin used while listening to his wife, and Emma,reading extracts from popular novels, as well as a bookcase that includes a volume of Darwin’s favourite book, or effect Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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Source: theguardian.com