Science against the unbelievers : the correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760-1780
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Science against the unbelievers : the correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760-1780
（Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century / edited by Theodore Besterman, 243）
Voltaire Foundation, 1986
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Bibliography: p. [343]-388
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Biographical note: Charles Bonnet
Biographical note: John Turberville Needham
Introduction
1. The correspondence
2. The generation of living things
3. Metaphysics and epistemology
4. Revealed religion, materialism, and unbelievers
5. Needham's controversy with Voltaire
6. The 'bust of Isis' and the sacred chronology
7. Cosmogony and the theory of the Earth
8. Bonnet and the Genevan political crisis, 1765-1768
9. Needham and the Brussels Academy of Sciences
10. The controversy over Schirach's experiments on bees
The letters
Appendices
A. Needham's genealogy
B. Needham's 'Memoire sur la Generation'
C. Needham's extant manuscripts and correspondence
Bibliography
Index
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