Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859

Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1959 - 471 pagina's

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.

Over de auteur

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.

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859; Johns Hopkins paperback
• Redacteurs: Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin
• Editie: geïllustreerd
• Uitgever: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1959
• ISBN: 0801802229, 9780801802225
• Lengte: 471 pagina's