Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

by Mary Gregory

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781135915827
  • Publish Date 23 October 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format eBook (OEB)
  • Pages 232
  • Language English