Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species e-bog
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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.
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Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
23 oktober 2006
Længde
232 sider
Genrer
1DDF
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781135915827
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.