Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

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.

Author: Mary Gregory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/21/2016
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9781138967687

About the Author

Mary Gregory is a scholar of the French Enlightenment. For the past ten years she has been researching Diderot's views regarding the metamorphosis of species in four of his texts, namely, the Pensées philosophiques (1746), the Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient (1749), the Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature (1753), and the trilogy, the Entretien entre d'Alembert et Diderot (1769), the Rêve de d'Alembert (1769), and the Suite de l'Entretien (1769).