|
|
(Larger Image)
|
A History Of Science
by Henry Smith Williams
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (2004-06-30)
ISBN: 1419101668
EAN: 9781419101663
Dewy Decimal #: 509
Paperback: 188 pages
Condition: Very Good
Comments: "BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed!"
|
Editorial Reviews
|
Product Description
It was a dream, however, which was not confined to Goethe and Darwin. Even earlier the idea had come more or less vaguely to another great dreamer--and worker--of Germany, Immanuel Kant, and to several great Frenchmen, including De Maillet, Maupertuis, Robinet, and the famous naturalist Buffon--a man who had the imagination of a poet, though his message was couched in most artistic prose. Not long after the middle of the eighteenth century Buffon had put forward the idea of transmutation of species, and he reiterated it from time to time from then on till his death in 1788. But the time was not yet ripe for the idea of transmutation of species to burst its bonds.
|
|
|
|
|