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The Philosophy of Zoology Before Darwin - A translated and annotated version of the original French text by Edmond Perrier
of: Alex McBirney, Stanton Cook
Springer-Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 9789048130092 , 266 Pages
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The Philosophy of Zoology Before Darwin - A translated and annotated version of the original French text by Edmond Perrier
Table of Contents
5
Foreword
10
Translator’s Preface
13
Preface
15
Chapter I Introduction
19
Chapter II Aristotle
24
Chapter III The Roman Period
31
Chapter IV The Middle Ages and Renaissance
36
Chapter V Evolution of the Concept of Species
41
Chapter VI Philosophers of the XVIIIth Century
47
Chapter VII Buffon
60
Chapter VIII Lamarck
72
Chapter IX Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
86
Chapter X Georges Cuvier
100
Chapter XI Debate between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
112
Chapter XII Goethe
122
Dugès Chapter XIII
127
Chapter XIV The German Natural Philosophers
139
Chapter XV The Theory of the Organic Types and its Consequences
150
Chapter XVI Louis Agassiz
168
Chapter XVII The Lower Animals
179
Chapter XVIII Cell Theory and the Constitution of the Individual
195
Chapter XIX Embryology
209
Chapter XX Species and their Modifications
220
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