Talk:Loren Eiseley

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What's with the bad "read online" link(s)?[edit]

How great it would be if we could read Eiseley on line! Sadly, I'm about to remove a link that promises it for "The Unexpected Universe", but fails to deliver - it looks like a bait-and-switch trick to steer suckers to buy the book. I won't clean up the whole page in case I'm infringing some new Bad-Commercial-Links policy I don't know about. BAPhilp (talk) 11:02, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think he's a good guy, but that's just my opinion.

He was an amazing guy. His book All the Strange Hours is a classic.--Alabamaboy 13:05, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A photograph?[edit]

Can we locate a photograph of Loren Eiseley to put up on this page? Wowbobwow12 16:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link[edit]

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Introduction by Loren Eiseley[edit]

Loren Eiseley wrote an introduction to the Ballantine edition of A Voyage to Arcturus:

http://www.violetapple.org.uk/vta/editions/ballantine_1968.php

--jwalling (talk) 06:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed sections[edit]

I think I can find enough cites and material to fill these sections. It seems that after including so much on his writings, there should be a way to summarize significant topics of his life's purpose and philosophy. There will obviously be some overlapping but overall the new sections should prove useful. Any thoughts on these or other heading titles? Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 05:26, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Philosophical significance

Religion

Evolution

Science

Meaning of life

Early life[edit]

In the first sentence of the fifth paragraph in this section, we read that Loren Eiseley worked in a "natural history Museum". There is a citation, and I looked at it but could not find the particular source of the phrase. Something about this phrase seems incorrect. If it is the name of the museum, then "natural" and "history" should be capitalized (and perhaps the location of the museum given). If it is not the name of a particular museum, but just a generic phrase, then "museum" should not be capitalized. It would be nice if someone who is familiar with this moment in Eiseley's life and the museum could fix, or explain, this phrase.CorinneSD (talk) 15:35, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed - removed cap. --Light show (talk) 17:50, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Academic career[edit]

In the last sentence of the last paragraph in this section, we read:

for his "significant contribution for the improvement of life and the environment in this country."

Usually, the preposition "to" follows the word "contribution". I had already changed "for" to "to" in this same quote (from the Human Society) earlier in the article, but now that I see it again, this time with a citation, I'm going to change it back to "for", but I also feel I ought to ask if someone can check the reference. If it should be "contribution to", then this phrase needs to be corrected in two places: 1) in the last sentence in the last paragraph in the article's first section, and 2) in the last sentence in the last paragraph in the "Academic career" section.CorinneSD (talk) 15:50, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed Just checked, and "for" is correct. --Light show (talk) 17:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X[edit]

In the second sentence in this section, we read:

Butler accused Darwin of slighting the evolutionary speculations of Buffon, Lamarck, and his own grandfather Erasmus."

I feel there is some ambiguity in the phrase, "his own grandfather". It is not completely clear whether this refers to Samuel Butler's grandfather or Darwin's grandfather. But, even if one could live with that, I wonder who this "Erasmus" was. Could either man's grandfather be the 16th century Erasmus? If not, whom did the writer mean? Or did he mean "grandfather" in a figurative sense? Could someone help clarify or explain this?CorinneSD (talk) 17:16, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed - link corrected. --Light show (talk) 17:50, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dead Footnote Link[edit]

One of the footnote links no longer exists. The website states that the EMuseum has been out of service since March 15, 2011.

Minnesota State University EMuseum's Eiseley biography

The footnote is used in the Early Life section. The information from it can probably be found in one of the other sources about Loren Eiseley's life. Here is a link to the source. Minnesota State University EMuseum's Eiseley biography — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josie.jensen09 (talk • contribs) 01:28, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Read Excerpts Online Links and Citing Amazon Reviews[edit]

The links to google books seem entirely useless and detract from the article, I think. Why in the world would I need a link just to take me to the google books page for each book? I could easily find that myself, and even if they should be left in the article, surely they would make more sense in the external links section than in the body of the article.

I don't believe that any of the amazon reviews make very credible sources. Why should I care about some random review on Amazon.com? Also, the overviews of some of these books -- specifically the ones that include the links to google books -- come across more as advertisements or blurbs than encyclopedic content. Frajo99 (talk) 15:22, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Darwin's Century[edit]

Should this be split to its own page?

Would this be an example of historiography or is it called something else? Ranze (talk) 23:08, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Gregory McNamee of Amazon.com[edit]

I am slightly concerned that in the book section for Eiseley there are reviews from Amazon.com, for example "Gregory McNamee of Amazon.com" says etc. This is not reliable. Anyone can leave a review on Amazon. It is not a reliable source of information for Wikipedia. Skeptic from Britain (talk) 21:31, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]