Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species
Hardback Published on: 14/12/2006
Price: £160
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Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN: 9780415955515
- Number of pages: 221
- Dimensions: 236 x 154 x 18 mm
- Weight: 590g
- Languages: English