From the Greeks to Darwin : An Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea

Published by Macmillan and Co., New York, 1894

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Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. 8mm tears and chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. Hinges broken. Ex libris bookplate, J. W. Mellor.; x, 259, [1 (blank)] pages. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 222 x 148mm. "This volume has grown out of lectures first delivered in Princeton in 1890, upon the period between Buffon and Darwin, and completed in a fuller course delivered in Columbia in 1893, which covered also the period before Buffon. When I began the study, my object was to bring forward the many strong and true features of pre-Darwinian Ecolution, which are so generally pasased over or misunderstood. When all the materials were brought together from the earliest times, the evidence of continuity in the development of the idea became more clear, and to trace these lines of development has gradually become the central motive of these lectures." - from the Preface, page vii. Contents: The Anticipation and Interpretation of Nature; Among the Greeks; The Theologicans and Natural Philosophers; The Evolutionists of the Eighteenth Century; From Lamarck to St. Hilaire; Darwin. Series: Columbia University Biological Series, #1. "Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS (August 8, 1857 — November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society." - Wikipedia entry on Henry Fairfield Osborn, accessed July 2024.…

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Title
From the Greeks to Darwin : An Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea
Author
Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857-1935)
Publisher
Macmillan and Co., New York
Publication year
1894
Condition
Good
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No Dust Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
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