Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

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Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Philosophy

Author: Mary Gregory

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Collection: Studies in Philosophy

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 23rd October 2006

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9781135915827


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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