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Download or read book Buffon written by Jacques Roger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Epochs of Nature by : Georges-Louis Leclerc
Download or read book The Epochs of Nature written by Georges-Louis Leclerc and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching from the Earth’s origins to its foreseen end, and though Buffon was limited by the scientific knowledge of his era—the substance of the Earth was not, as he asserts, dragged out of the sun by a giant comet, nor is the sun’s heat generated by tidal forces—many of his deductions appear today as startling insights. And yet, The Epochs of Nature has never before been available in its entirety in English—until now. In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level—and he even touches on age-old mysteries like why the sun shines. In one of many moments of striking scientific prescience, Buffon details evidence for species extinction a generation before Cuvier’s more famous assertion of the phenomenon. His seventh and final epoch does nothing less than offer the first geological glimpse of the idea that humans are altering the very foundations of the Earth—an idea of remarkable resonance as we debate the designation of another epoch: the Anthropocene. Also featuring Buffon’s extensive “Notes Justificatives,” in which he offers further evidence to support his assertions (and discusses vanished monstrous North American beasts—what we know as mastodons—as well as the potential existence of human giants), plus an enlightening introduction by editor and translator Jan Zalasiewicz and historians of science Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald, this extraordinary new translation revives Buffon’s quite literally groundbreaking work for a new age.
Book Synopsis Buffon's Natural History by : Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Download or read book Buffon's Natural History written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... by : British Museum (Natural History). Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh by : Edinburgh University Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable. This book was released on 1918 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London by : Zoological Society of London. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 by : Bronwen Douglas
Download or read book Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 written by Bronwen Douglas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).
Book Synopsis Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ by : Anna Kérchy
Download or read book Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ written by Anna Kérchy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus acts. The essays explore the locally specific dimensions of the exhibition of extraordinary bodies within their particular historical, cultural and political context. Thus the impact of the Nazi eugenics programs, state Socialism, or the Chernobyl catastrophe is observed closely and yet the transnational dimensions of enfreakment are made obvious through topics ranging from Jesuit missionaries’ diabolization of American Indians, to translations of Continental European teratology in British medical journals, and the Hollywood silver screen’s colonization of European fantasies about deformity. Although Continental European freaks are introduced as products of ideologically-infiltrated representations, they also emerge as embodied subjects endowed with their own voice, view, and subversive agency.
Book Synopsis Embryogeny and Phylogeny of the Human Posture 1 by : Anne Dambricourt Malasse
Download or read book Embryogeny and Phylogeny of the Human Posture 1 written by Anne Dambricourt Malasse and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the human posture is in the spotlight. The 200-year-old locomotion paradigm can no longer resist the advancement of knowledge, yet 2,500 years of thinking on the place of verticalized human anatomy and its reflexive consciousness in the natural history of life and the Earth, is more relevant than ever. This book retraces these reflections from pre-Socratic philosophers, focusing on the link between verticality and the most complex and consciously reflexive nervous system on the top rung of the ladder of living beings. The origin of animated forms, or animals, was considered metaphysical until the 19th century but reflection on their inception, from fertilization, paved the way for mathematics of infinitesimal geometry and dynamics. The simian filiation was inconceivable until Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck bridged the gap in 1802 with the locomotion postulate to explain the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal posture, sustained by the hypothesis of inheritance of acquired characteristics. This doctrine was overturned in 1987 by the discovery of the embryonic origins of the straightening - specific dynamics linked to neurogenesis - confirming the natural place of human verticality and nervous system complexity with its psychomotor and cognitive consequences. Sapiens find themselves at the physical limit of the straightening while mechanisms of gametogenesis have never ceased in making neurogenesis exponentially more complex. Is the future exclusively terrestrial or does intrauterine hominization open up new perspectives for space exploration? Posturologists, occlusodontics, osteopaths, cognisciences - all anthropological sciences exposed to human verticality are concerned with this discovery, which allows Sapiens to face their natural destiny
Book Synopsis Evolutionism in Eighteenth-century French Thought by : Mary Efrosini Gregory
Download or read book Evolutionism in Eighteenth-century French Thought written by Mary Efrosini Gregory and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how eight eighteenth-century French theorists - Maillet, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Buffon, Maupertuis, Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire - addressed evolutionism. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually open the door to the mutability of species and a departure from the long-held belief that the chain of beings is fixed. This book describes how the philosophes established a triune relationship among contemporary scientific discoveries, random creationism propelled by the motive and conscious properties of matter, and the notion of the chain of being, along with its corollaries, plenitude and continuity. Also addressed is the contemporary debate over whether apes could ever be taught to speak as well as the issue of race and the family of man.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Science Library in the South Kensington Museum by : South Kensington Museum. Science Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Science Library in the South Kensington Museum written by South Kensington Museum. Science Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Science library in the South Kensington museum by : Science museum libr
Download or read book Catalogue of the Science library in the South Kensington museum written by Science museum libr and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sciences in Enlightened Europe by : William Clark
Download or read book The Sciences in Enlightened Europe written by William Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academics and boisterous clubs, plans for violent wars and for universal peace, are all relocated in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors show how changing forms of discipline, machinery, and instrumentation affected the emergence of new kinds of knowledge; consider how institutions of public rate taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe. Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, both in the principal European countries and in areas peripheral to Europe, the book also includes ample illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment. -- from back cover.
Book Synopsis The Scope and Content of the Science of Anthropology by : Juul Dieserud
Download or read book The Scope and Content of the Science of Anthropology written by Juul Dieserud and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wild Boy of Aveyron by : Harlan Lane
Download or read book The Wild Boy of Aveyron written by Harlan Lane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full account of Dr. Jean-Marc Itard's work, in the early 1800s, with Victor, who had lived wild for twelve years, and of the resulting educational, psychological, anthropological, and philosophical controversies and changes.
Book Synopsis Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Parlement du Canada by : Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque
Download or read book Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Parlement du Canada written by Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing by : Alison M. Downham Moore
Download or read book The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing written by Alison M. Downham Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of doctors' professional identities in postrevolutionary biomedicine. Older women were identified as an important patient cohort for the expanding medicalisation of French society and were advised to entrust themselves to the hygienic care of doctors in managing the whole era of life from around and after the final cessation of menses. However, menopause owed much of its conceptual weft to earlier themes of women as the sicker sex, of vitalist crisis, of the vapours, and of astrological climacteric years. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention. It tells a complex story of how women's ageing featured in the demographic revolution in modern science, in the denigration of folk medicine, in the unique French field of hygiène, and in the fixation on women in the emergence of modern psychiatry. It reveals the nineteenth-century French origins of the still-current medical and alternative-health approaches to women's ageing as something to be managed through gynaecological surgery, hormonal replacement, and lifestyle intervention.
