Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species by Gregory, Mary

Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415955515)

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Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species by Gregory, Mary

Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

$225.00
Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species by Gregory, Mary

Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

$225.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.



Author: Mary Gregory
ISBN-10: 0415955513
ISBN-13: 9780415955515
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2006
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.06w x 0.70d
By Mary Gregory
By Mary Gregory
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Mary Gregory is a scholar of the French Enlightenment. For the past ten years she has been researching Diderot's views regarding the metamorphosis of species in four of his texts, namely, the Pensées philosophiques (1746), the Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient (1749), the Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature (1753), and the trilogy, the Entretien entre d'Alembert et Diderot (1769), the Rêve de d'Alembert (1769), and the Suite de l'Entretien (1769).

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