Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801802229 ISBN 13: 9780801802225

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Owsei Temkin, M.D. (1902–2002), was William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology, Soranus' Gynecology (translation), and Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0801802229
• ISBN 13: 9780801802225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Glass Bentley