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Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Mary Gregory author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:21st Jul '16

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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: 9781138967687

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

232 pages