Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859

Author(s)

• Glass, Bentley
• Temkin, Owsei
• Straus, William L. (William Louis)
• Johns Hopkins History of Ideas Club

Bibliographic Information

Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859

edited by Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, William L. Straus, Jr. ; under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins History of Ideas Club

（Johns Hopkins paperbacks, JH-41）

Johns Hopkins Press, 1968

Note

Bibliography: p. xii-xx

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA18243877
• ISBN:
  • 0801802229
• LCCN: 68015457
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 471 p., [5] leaves of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH361
  • DC : 575.01/6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882
  • LCSH : Evolution (Biology) -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00385168