Article ID: CBB000076858

Blumenbach's racial geometry (1998)

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Description Criticizes Gould, Stephen Jay's discussion of Blumenbach's anthropological classification. Response by Gould, “On mental and visual geometry” (pp. 502-504).


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Authors & Contributors
Nassar, Dalia
Zammito, John H.
Augstein, Hannah Franziska
De Cieri, Antonella
Dougherty, F. W. P.
Duchesneau, François
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
Atti Accad. Sci. Mor. Polit. Napoli
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Villanova University
Concepts
Biology
Teleology
Anthropology
Embryology
Physical anthropology
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
People
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
Kant, Immanuel
Baer, Karl Ernst von
Banks, Joseph
Barthez, Paul Joseph
Buchdahl, Gerd
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Places
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
Université de Montpellier
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