Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859

by Bentley Glass (Editor), Owsei Temkin (Editor), William L. Straus Jr. (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801802225
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1968
Pages:	489
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.12(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.