Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

by Mary Gregory (Author)

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 28 Jul 2016

ISBN 10: 1138967688
ISBN 13: 9781138967687

Author Bio
Mary Gregory is a scholar of the French Enlightenment. For the past ten years she has been researching Diderot's views regarding the metamorphosis of species in four of his texts, namely, the Pensees philosophiques (1746), the Lettre sur les aveugles a l'usage de ceux qui voient (1749), the Pensees sur l'interpretation de la nature (1753), and the trilogy, the Entretien entre d'Alembert et Diderot (1769), the Reve de d'Alembert (1769), and the Suite de l'Entretien (1769).