Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 Bentley Glass

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Haber, and Jane Oppenheimer.

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Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 by Bentley Glass

Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant, Herder, Lamarck, and Schopenhauer by such leading scholars as Arthur O. Lovejoy, Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, C. C. Gillispie, Francis C. Haber, and Jane Oppenheimer.

About Bentley Glass

Owsei Temkin, M.D. (1902-2002), was William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology, Soranus' Gynecology (translation), and Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians.

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NLS9780801802225

ISBN 13

9780801802225

ISBN 10

0801802229

Title

Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 by Bentley Glass

Author

Bentley Glass

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New

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Paperback

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Year published

1968-04-26

Number of pages

489

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