Book ID: CBB550126790

Les oeuvres complètes de Voltaire: Tome 65B, Les singularités de la nature (2017)

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Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (Author)
Stenger, Gerhardt (Author)
Mayer, Jean (Author)


Voltaire Foundation


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 383 pp.
Language: French

In Les Singularités de la nature (1768) Voltaire outlines his own views on various aspects of natural history such as the formation of mountains, the origin of fossils or the mechanisms of animal reproduction at a time when geology, chemistry and biology were still very much in their infancy, deriding the theories of many his contemporaries along the way.

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Authors & Contributors
Antunes, Miguel Telles
Sequeira Fernandes, Antonio Carlos
Anderson, Gemma
Brandão, José Manuel
Canadelli, Elena
Cohen, Claudine
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Filosofia e História da Biologia
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Archives of Natural History
British Journal for the History of Science
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Brill
Éditions du Seuil
Olschki
Universidad de Granada
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Natural history
Fossils
Paleontology
Mountains
Geology
Earth sciences
People
Dávila, Pedro Franco
de Casal, Manuel Aires
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Huddesford, William
Humboldt, Alexander von
Lhwyd, Edward
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Spain
Brazil
Europe
Italy
England
Alps (Europe)
Institutions
University of Padua
Università di Pavia
East India Company (English)
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