Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (Author)
Stenger, Gerhardt (Author)
Mayer, Jean (Author)
Voltaire Foundation
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.
...MoreReview Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (2019) Review of "Les oeuvres complètes de Voltaire: Tome 65B, Les singularités de la nature". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 832-833).
Similar Citations
Chapter
Kempe, Michael;
(2006)
Die Gedächtnisspur der Berge und Fossilien. Johann Jakob Scheuchzers Sintfluttheorie als Theologie der Erdgeschichte
(/isis/citation/CBB001221572/)
Chapter
Chetan Singh;
(2021)
Creation of “Scientific” Knowledge: The Asiatick Society and Exploration of the Himalaya, 1784–1850
(/isis/citation/CBB662212988/)
Chapter
Barbara Orland;
(2021)
Alpine Landscapes of Health: The Swiss Whey Cure and Therapeutic Tourism between 1750 and 1870
(/isis/citation/CBB431462559/)
Book
Alexander von Humboldt;
(2014)
Views of Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB344052096/)
Article
Susanne Lettow;
(2021)
Conceiving reproduction in German Naturphilosophie. Introduction
(/isis/citation/CBB625939378/)
Article
R. B. Williams;
(2017)
Corroboration of the Inferred Publication Date of J. S. Bowerbank's a History of the Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay
(/isis/citation/CBB006702476/)
Book
Cohen, Claudine;
(2011)
La méthode de Zadig: La trace, le fossile, la preuve
(/isis/citation/CBB001221122/)
Article
Prestes, Maria Elice Brzezinski;
Faria, Frederico Felipe de Almeida;
(2011)
Lazzaro Spallanzani e os fósseis: das observações em viagens naturalísticas ao ensino de história natural
(/isis/citation/CBB001420546/)
Book
Rudwick, Martin J. S.;
(2014)
Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
(/isis/citation/CBB001422030/)
Book
Hedeen, Stanley;
(2008)
Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology
(/isis/citation/CBB000831278/)
Book
Francesco Luzzini;
(2013)
Il miracolo inutile. Antonio Vallisneri e le scienze della Terra in Europa tra XVII e XVIII secolo
(/isis/citation/CBB451473673/)
Article
McMillan, R. Bruce;
(2010)
The Discovery of Fossil Vertebrates on Missouri's Western Frontier
(/isis/citation/CBB001031246/)
Thesis
Cunningham, Michael Doucette;
(2005)
Seashells on the Mountains: Antonio Vallisneri, Fossils, and the Republic ofLetters
(/isis/citation/CBB001561907/)
Chapter
Meredith, Margaret;
(2009)
Friendship and Knowledge: Correspondence and Communication in Northern Trans-Atlantic Natural History, 1780--1815
(/isis/citation/CBB000954196/)
Article
Elena Canadelli;
(2016)
Marble Busts and Fish Fossils: The Catalog of the Museum of naturalia and artificialia at the University of Padua (1797)
(/isis/citation/CBB561990879/)
Article
Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor;
Edwin D. Rose;
(2018)
Lives and Afterlives of the Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia (1699), The First Illustrated Field Guide to English Fossils
(/isis/citation/CBB973730328/)
Article
Stilwell, Jeffrey D.;
(2006)
Trilobites and Linnaeus: The First Fossil Reconstruction from 1759
(/isis/citation/CBB000600289/)
Book
Torrubia, José;
Sequeiros, Leandro;
Pelayo, Francisco;
(2007)
Aparato para la historia natural española de Joseph Torrubia
(/isis/citation/CBB000930376/)
Article
Sequeira Fernandes, Antonio Carlos;
Telles Antunes, Miguel;
Brandão, José Manuel;
Rodriguez Cabral Ramos, Renato;
(2012)
O Monstro de Prados e Simão Pires Sardinha: considerações sobre o primeiro relatório de registro de um fóssil brasileiro
(/isis/citation/CBB001212022/)
Article
Sequeira Fernandes, Antonio Carlos;
Faria, Felipe;
Antunes, Miguel Telles;
(2013)
Manuel Aires de Casal, o beemote de Jó e o registro das ocorrências fossilíferas brasileiras no início do século XIX
(/isis/citation/CBB001214011/)
Be the first to comment!