From Natural History to the History of Nature
Readings from Buffon and His Critics
This scholarly and conscientious book makes an important . . . contribution to the study and interpretation of Buffon, and so, too, to the Enlightenment generally. What Lyon and Sloan have done is present English texts under four headings, so that we have successively: a selection from Buffon's writings prior to the first (1749) volumes of his Histoire naturelle; pieces from these first volumes of 1749; immediate responses by the earliest critics, writing about the 1749 texts, and finally Hérault de Séchelles' essay on Buffon, Voyage à MontbardK/i>. Much of the material is in translations made by Lyon and Sloan themselves, and in many case…
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Weitere Autoren: Sloan, Phillip R. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-268-00955-7
- EAN: 9780268009557
- Produktnummer: 24150134
- Verlag: University Of Notre Dame Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1981
- Seitenangabe: 422 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.9 cm 834 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 834
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