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Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Mary Gregory author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Oct '06

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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.

ISBN: 9780415955515

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 590g

232 pages