Buffon
Title | Buffon PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Roger |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780801429187 |
A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of mr. Charles Darwin. Op. 4
Title | Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of mr. Charles Darwin. Op. 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Butler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
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Buffon's Natural History
Title | Buffon's Natural History PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1797 |
Genre | Anthropology |
ISBN |
Buffon’s Natural History
Title | Buffon’s Natural History PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2020-08-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 375239529X |
Reproduction of the original: Buffon’s Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy
Title | The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Knud Haakonssen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 790 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Electronic reference sources |
ISBN | 9780521867436 |
This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.
Buffon and the British
Title | Buffon and the British PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen F. Milliken |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1020 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Naturalists |
ISBN |
The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity
Title | The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Isaac |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 2006-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780691125985 |
"The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples shed light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement of foreigners in those societies (and on foreigners concomitant integration or non-integration), but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well."--BOOK JACKET.