Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species
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Age Of The Earth
Animal Kingdom
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Book III
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chance
Dead Matter
Eighteenth Century French Thought
Elementary Awareness
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Emergent Consciousness
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Iconic Representation
Inaugural Dissertation
Interior Mold
kingdom
La Mettrie
Le Monstre
mineral
Mineral Kingdom
Motion Stop
Noachian Flood
Nonliving Matter
parental
Parental Elements
Perfect Prototype
polyp
Punctum Saliens
random
siamese
Siamese Twins
Slender Threads
Species Overlap
Spontaneous Generation
Trembley's Polyp
trembleys
Trembley’s Polyp
twins
Vice Versa
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- ISBN 9781138967687
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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 Pensées philosophiques (1746), the Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient (1749), the Pensées sur l’interprétation de la nature (1753), and the trilogy, the Entretien entre d’Alembert et Diderot (1769), the Rêve de d’Alembert (1769), and the Suite de l’Entretien (1769).
