Article ID: CBB001420666

Historia natural y temporalización: consideraciones sobre la Historia natural de Buffon (2013)

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This article presents a rereading of Buffon's Natural History in the light of the concepts of temporal reversibility and irreversibility. The goal is to determine to what extent Buffon introduces a transformationist concept of natural forms in this work. To that effect, the main points of classical natural history and the doctrine of preformed germs are analyzed. Subsequently, Buffon's use of the temporal variable is considered. This examination shows that despite his rejection of the theory of preformationism and the scholastic classification system, Buffon continued to use categories based on a reversible temporal matrix.

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Authors & Contributors
Roman, Hanna
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Liebman, Elizabeth Amy
Caponi, Gustavo
James G. Sanderson
Demarest, Boris
Concepts
Natural history
Evolution
Animals
Biology
Nature
Classification in biology
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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