Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel: Volume 1

<p>Chapter One</p><p>Prelude: Heredity, Sex, and Species – the Greek View</p><p> </p><p>            The Mutiny of Reason</p><p>            Change or No Change?</p><p>            Plato’s Myth</p><p>            Enter Aristotle and His Inventory of Reality</p><p>            The Hylomorphic Doctrine</p><p>            Aristotle’s Theory of Change</p><p>            Aristotle’s Concept of Animal Reproduction</p><p>                        The Kinds of Animal</p><p>                        The Origin of the Semen</p><p>                        The Quest for the Female Semen</p><p>                        The Origin of a New Individual</p><p>                        Embryonic Development</p><p>                        Generation in Plants</p><p>                        Spontaneous Generation</p><p>            Aristotle’s Theory of Inheritance</p><p>            Aristotle’s Species Concept</p><p>            Where Modern Genetics Meets Old Aristotle</p><p>            How Does Mendel Fit Into All This?</p><p> </p><p>Chapter Two</p><p>Silesia and Moravia – Mendel’s Tortured Homeland</p><p> </p><p>            Geographica Mendeliana</p><p>            The Birth of the Land</p><p>            Prehistoric Moravia/Silesia</p><p>            The Language Tree of Europe</p><p>            The Path to Modern Europe</p><p>            The Ascension of the Slavs</p><p>            Western Slavs’ Search for New Homeland</p><p>            Lands of the Czech Crown</p><p>                        Lužice (Lusacia)</p><p>                        Slezsko (Silesia)</p><p>                        Morava (Moravia)</p><p>                        Čechy (Bohemia)</p><p>            A Kingdom Granted and a Kingdom Stolen</p><p>            Islets of German-speaking People in the Czech Lands</p><p>Origin of Mendel’s Genes</p><p> </p><p>Chapter Three</p><p>The First Decade: The Childhood of a Farmer’s Son</p><p> </p><p>            Kravařsko</p><p>            The Odry Domain</p><p>            Hynčice and Veselí</p><p>            Ancestors</p><p>            The Surname</p><p>            Parents</p><p>            Teachers and Philanthropists</p><p>            Farmstead No. 58</p><p>            Johann Mendel is Born</p><p>            Sisters and Other Relatives</p><p>            The State of the Empire</p><p>            A Day at Home With the Mendels</p><p>            A Year of the Natural Cycle on Anton Mendel’s Farm</p><p>            A Year in a Village</p><p>            The Birth of a Naturalist</p><p>            A Momentous Decision</p><p>            Inevitability and Serendipity: Part 1</p><p>            Postscript: Mendel’s Nationality</p><p> </p><p>Chapter Four</p><p>Johann Mendel’s Lehrjahre: The Second Decade</p><p> </p><p>            Lipník nad Bečvou</p><p>            The Empire’s Schools</p><p>            The Prämiant</p><p>            Opava</p><p>            Olomouc</p><p>            Inevitability and Serendipity: Part 2</p><p> </p><p>Chapter Five</p><p>The Third Decade: The Vow</p><p> </p><p>            The City on Two Rivers</p><p>            The Augustinians</p><p>            The Abbey of St. Thomas in Staré Brno</p><p>            The Novice Gregor Mendel</p><p>Abbot Cyril Franz von Napp (1792 – 1867): Scholar, Diplomat, and Moravian     Patriot</p><p>The St. Thomas Quartet and the Other Augustinians</p><p>Philosophy and Linguistics at the St. Thomas Abbey</p><p>Music at the St. Thomas Abbey</p><p>Natural Sciences at the St. Thomas Abbey</p><p>Plant and Animal Breeding in Moravia and at the St. Thomas Abbey</p><p>An Overgrown Path</p><p>The Road to Priesthood</p><p>The Troubled Shepherd of Souls</p><p>The Patient Mendel</p><p>Inevitability and Serendipity: Part 3</p><p> </p><p>Chapter Six</p><p>Into the Fourth Decade: The Failed Professor</p><p> </p><p>            The Year of Revolutions</p><p>            Time Jerked the Curtain – and the World Changed!</p><p>            Calm Spring and Hot Summer in Prague</p><p>            1848 in Brno</p><p>            Revolution Knocks at the Gate of the St. Thomas Abbey</p><p>            The Revolt of the Friars</p><p>            The Bach Decade of Darkness</p><p>            The Birth and Death of Kakania</p><p>            The Bishop’s Throne in Brno</p><p>            An Apostolic Visitation</p><p>            Napp’s Dilemma</p><p>            Znojmo: One Year in Haven</p><p>            Preparation For an Examination</p><p>            Jacta Alea Est!</p><p>            The Examiners</p><p>            The Essays</p><p>            Behind Locked Doors</p><p>Viva Voce</p><p>Substitute Teacher at Brno’s Technical Institute</p><p>Rushing to Vienna</p><p>The Imperial-Royal Capital and Residence: Vienna</p><p>The University of Vienna</p><p>Getting Settled at Vienna</p><p>Student of Physics</p><p>Natural History at the University of Vienna</p><p>Student of Botany</p><p>The Lackadaisical Student of Zoology</p><p>Student of Chemistry</p><p>Student of Paleontology and Mathematics</p><p>Membership in a Society and First Publications</p><p>Private Life in Vienna</p><p>Visit in Hynčice</p><p>Failed Examination: Act Two</p><p>Substitute Teacher at the Realschule</p><p>What Had Mendel Learned in Vienna?</p><p> </p>