Article ID: CBB000034877

For want of a metaphor (1983)

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Description On Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis' book, Vénus physique, published in 1745, especially concerning his discussion of race and preformation, which resulted in an argument against preformation.


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Authors & Contributors
Terrall, Mary
Hecht, Hartmut
Duchesneau, François
Prunea-Bretonnet, Tinca
Downing, Lisa
Zinsser, Judith P.
Journals
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Journal of the History of Biology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Revue de Synthèse
Recherches sur Diderot et sur l' Encyclopédie
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Steiner
Aubier Montaigne
Concepts
Science
Mechanics
Variational principles
Philosophy
Mathematics
Embryology
People
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
Kant, Immanuel
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise
Mairan, Jean Jacques Dortous de
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Places
France
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